07
June
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Film Society Screening: Mouchette

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Add to Calendar Film Society Screening: MouchetteThe Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Location
The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Event price
Free
Booking Required
Not Required
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. With a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace and respite from her circumstances in the nature of the French countryside and daily routine. Bresson deploys his trademark minimalist style to heartbreaking effect in this essential work of French filmmaking, a hugely empathetic drama that elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema’s most memorable tragic figures.