"The precision of Bresson's style is most apparent in this almost unbearably moving portrait of the last twenty-four hours in the barren, isolated life of a young French girl." (Cinematheque Ontario) "Two great sequences stand out as good, if not better than anything Bresson has ever done: Mouchette's brief moment of joy in a surprisingly erotic fairground scene, and her suicide, which, backed by the Monteverdi Magnificat, is also a moment of exaltation and one of the great scenes in all cinema." (Richard Roud) The Dardenne Brothers' acclaimed film Rosetta was influenced by this portrait. More at rialtopictures.com
1967, b&w, 1 hour 22 minutes, France