Mouchette

About Mouchette

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Robert Bresson's Mouchette is a 1967 drama film. Released in March 1967, it runs 81 minutes.

Its themes are village, countryside, adolescence, and teenage protagonist.

Nadine Nortier appears as Mouchette, Jean-Claude Guilbert as Arsène, Marie Cardinal as Mouchette's Mother, and Paul Hébert as Mouchette's Father. The screenplay is by Robert Bresson. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

August: Osage County, Awaker, and Hot Fuzz make useful companions to Mouchette, all filed under alcoholic father, sick mother, and suicide. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 290 votes and it carries a NR rating.