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                         Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
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STARS...........: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge
DIRECTOR........: Robert Bresson
WRITERS.........: Robert Bresson
GENRE...........: Drama
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138
RUNTIME.........: 1h 35mn
SIZE............: 4.82 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1792x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.66:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: French AAC 1.0 192kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2020-08-24


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.


Extras

• Interview from 2004 with film scholar Donald Richie.

• “Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson,” a 1966 French television program about the film, featuring director Robert Bresson, filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and members of Au hasard Balthazar’s cast and crew.

• Trailer