Robert Bresson, 1967Mouchette is a poor, angry, and shit disturbing prepubescent. Her story is one of hardship, having to take care of her dying mother and baby brother, while enduring an abusive alcoholic father. What I really liked about the film is the duality that Bresson creates in Mouchette. On one hand she evokes sympathy from the viewer because of her situation, at the same time her unpleasant and vengeful personality makes her easy to dislike. This contradiction creates a very interesting character. Bresson’s films have a very unique quality about them. While they seem to be very simple, almost to the point of being boring, they work perfectly as a whole. I found the same thing with Au Hasard Balthazar (7.2/10), Pickpocket (7.5), and Diary of a Country Priest (7.3).
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