Mouchette

Mouchette pronouncedmu.t is a 1967 French film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Nadine Nortier and JeanClaude Guilbert. It is based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, winning the OCIC Award International Catholic Organization for Cinema and Audiovisual.

This is the tale of a young girl whose life is filled with tragedy. Mouchette Nadine Nortier, whose name means little fly, lives in an isolated French village with her alcoholic father and bedridden mother, where she takes care of her infant brother and does all the housework.The film opens with a gamekeeper, Mathieu Jean Vimenet, watching a poacher, Arsne JeanClaude Gilbert, as he sets his snares in the sunlit woods. ........

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