MOUCHETTE

Based on a novel by George Bernanos ("Diary of a Country Priest"), this central work in the Bresson canon is often described as a companion-piece to AU HASARD BALTHAZAR. The life of an outcast 14-year-old girl in rural France is etched with a harsh beauty epitomized by the tour-de-force bumper-car scene. MOUCHETTE was picked as one of the ten greatest films by Jim Jarmusch, and as one of the 100 best by Time critic Richard Corliss, who called it “brutally radiant.” In French with English subtitles. 35mm. (MR)