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Mouchette poster
FRANCE · 1967

Mouchette

Robert Bresson
French New Wave adolescence village poacher policeman suicide
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Synopsis

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Year1967
CountryFrance
DirectorRobert Bresson
MovementFrench New Wave
Cinematic Threads
What I had done was, I had shown everybody in the crew Au hasard Balthazar, and I think I also showed them Mouchette.

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