DVD
Mouchette
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN FILMS (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
French dialogue with English subtitles.
Performers
Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal, Paul Hebert, Jean Vimenet, Marie Susini, Suzanne Huguenin, Marine Trichet, Raymonde Chabrun.
Publication Information
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007].
Physical Description
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
One of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. Mouchette, a teenage girl, must deal with tragic events and a broken family.
Notes
Title from container.
Adapted from "Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette" by Georges Bernanos.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.
Special features: Audio commentary by renowned film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns; "Au hasard Bresson" documentary; "Travelling" a segment from the cine-magazine TV series "Cinéma"; original theatrical trailer; new essay by writer Robert Polito.