Au hasard Balthazar Quotes

  • Marie's mother: He is in despair. Comfort him.

    [Marie's father turns away]

    Priest: You must forgive. Everyone. Much will be forgiven you. You have suffered.

    Marie's father: I may suffer less than you think.

    Priest: [Reading] God does not foresake forever. He may punish, yet he will have compassion. H does not willingly afflict the children of men.

  • Marie: Don't you believe in anything?

    Merchant: I believe in what I own. I love money. I hate death.

    Marie: You'll die like everyone else.

    Merchant: I will bury them all.

  • Gerard: Lend him to us.

    Marie's mother: He's worked enough. He's old. He's all I have.

    Gerard: Just for a day.

    Marie's mother: Besides, he's a saint.

Extended Reading
  • Hayley 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    @Beijing French Cultural Center Bresson Film Festival. A donkey who watched the world get worse from birth to death. After the middle section, there is some confusion about the relationship between the characters and the narrative, but every time the main theme of the music with extreme restraint is reproduced, it suddenly feels poetic.

  • Sonny 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    In a love triangle between a man and a donkey, the donkey became the male lead, with the same tragic fate as the heroine. The masterpiece of Bresson's minimalism, the amount of information is amazing, the film's response is far richer and more profound than the story itself. Influenced by the Janssen School, Bresson did not believe that the behavior of the characters should have their own psychological motives. The characters are always fighting against the will, and they are always going to a fatalistic tragedy. ★★★★