Mouchette is one of Robert Bresson’s greatest cinematic achievements, plumbing immense emotional depths in a searing, heartbreaking portrait of human frailty. Hemmed in by a dying mother, an alcoholic father and a baby brother in need of care, the adolescent Mouchette searches for sanctuary in nature and domestic chores. As the delicate intricacies of her life are played out a touching, tender and tragic portrait is painted, making her of one of cinema’s most memorable tragic heroines. An essential piece of classic French filmmaking.
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Robert Bresson's sombre drama is an unsentimental take on a teenager's tragic home life. 14-year-old Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) is an inarticulate peasant girl, whose mother is terminally ill, and whose father, an alcoholic, abuses her. Unloved and seeing no hope for the future, Mouchette contemplates taking her own life.
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