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Au Hasard Balthazar

A little donkey is suckled by its mother, then baptized Balthazar; a girl and boy say goodbye at the end of summer: a vision of paradise. Years pass and the now-teenaged Marie (Anne Wiazemsky) finds herself drifting into more and more destructive situations, including involvement with a local juvenile delinquent; while Balthazar moves from owner to owner, some relatively kind, some cruel, some drunkenly careless.

ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT...ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENTS OF THE CINEMA." JEAN-LUC GODARD

"One of the great, if not the greatest of, living directors; if he had made no film other than Balthazar, he would deserve the title." Molly Haskell

"Everyone has their favorite [Bresson film]. Mine is the heartbreaking Au Hasard Balthazar - a movie that transforms the death of a donkey into the most tragic and sublime cinematic passage I know. Bresson's supreme masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made." J. Hoberman, Village Voice

"No film has ever come so close to convulsing my entire being. It stands by itself as one of the loftiest pinnacles of artistically realized emotional experiences." Andrew Sarris

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival, 1966)

"One of the 20 great films of the 20th century" (BFI Sight & Sound Critics & Filmmakers Poll, 2002)

"One of the 10 greatest films of the 20th century" (Village Voice Critics Poll, 2000)