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Au Hasard Balthazar Blu-Ray

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Au Hasard Balthazar Dvd
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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1966
Director: Robert Bresson
Genre: Drama
Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Pierre Klossowski, Jean-Joel Barbier, Marie-Claire Fremont, François Sullerot, Jacques Sorbets, Jean Rémignard
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Language: French
Release Date: 2018-05-29
Description

A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson’s unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence.