Mouchette

1967. France. Written and directed by Robert Bresson, based on the novel by Georges Bernanos. With Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert. In Bresson's masterpiece, loneliness, shame, and other tragedies universal to human experience are evoked with compassion and subtlety through the depiction of twenty-four hours in the life of a teenage outcast who quietly absorbs the sins and abuses of her rural community. In French; English subtitles. 80 min.