#Odette Le Barbenchon

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Mouchette: A Broken Girl in an Abusive World

Here is a piece I wrote about Robert Bresson's coming of age film Mouchette, a big influence on the work of Celine Sciamma. Give it a read but be forewarned, it is a bleak one for a bleak film.

Robert Bresson sits at a particularly awkward position within French cinema studies categorically speaking. His most famous work is associated with the French New Wave, but he predates the movement by decades, existing within the French Cinematic Golden Age and working through the loathed “Papa’s Cinema” era of post-war cinema preceding the New Wave. He developed a deeply idiosyncratic aesthetic…

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Tava zapeando os canais da tv, parei no Telecine Cult e comecei a ver esse filme, como quem não quer nada, meio desinteressado...e no final fiquei impactado!

Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967).

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Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967).

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Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967).