Review of Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) by Pavandeep S — 01 Sep 2007
This was a very strange film for me to watch. For one, the performances were extremely bare, robotic, their reactions were always towards a character, not to what a character was doing. It was quite strange but I think he did this to somehow show the brutality of this world, where we ignore a lot of wrong-doings or jus any doings, though we might be aware, but we ourselves only react to the mnost outright of reactions.
Also, the closely parellel stories of suffering of both the donkey and the girl wa really interesting. The way they have to take it and their relationships witht the chracters they meet and their own emotions, the false pride of the father, the ridiculous rebelliousness of the girl and so on.
A beautiful film, should be watched again one day.
This review of Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) was written by Pavandeep S on 01 Sep 2007.
Au Hasard Balthazar has generally received very positive reviews.
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