Au Hasard Balthazar details
| Formats: | PG DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Anne Wiazemsky, Francois Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut, Walter Green, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Pierre Klossowski, Francois Sullerot, M.C. Fremont, Jean Remingard |
| Director: | Robert Bresson |
| Genres: | Drama - Comedy, World Cinema |
| Studio: | ARTIFICIAL EYE |
| Name | Discs | |
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Au Hasard Balthazar |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 31 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 22 Nov 2004 |
| Main languages: | French |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Oh dear oh dear
By a customer from Wirral , 28 Nov 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
I came to this film with high hopes from the reviews on this site... what a disappointment... I'm sure it was multi-layered and crafted etc... but what we saw was yet again, a 'typical French film' with long lingering looks, total bafflement as to what was going on so therefore I was so let down... I had my tissues at the ready because being an animal lover, I understood that Balthazar would be getting it in the neck at some point!! gave up after 15 minutes... my husband lasted 5 and said that 'going to clean his teeth was preferable to watching'!! quelle damage....- Was this review helpful to you?
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(23)something for the spiritual
By DimJim (59 reviews) from Edinburgh , 04 May 2013I'm not really into refection or spiritual observance, or redemption, so perhaps this is not really the film for me. But at least I understand what's good about it. The negative reviews are mostly missing the point, just as reviews of the spiritual paintings in art galleries that say they are full of depressing crucifixions and old paintings. I mean to say! sheesh! Ok, so the film is a work of art that needs due consideration. But don't films that are full of meaning and artistic intention start to look very old?! In the end, I couldn't be bothered... not my cup of tea, seeing horrible people and the innocent donkey, with SIN writ large.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Sonata for a standard donkey
By a customer , 15 Mar 2013Au Hasard Balthazar has one positive, its relative brevity. The life of an understandably put-upon donkey in rural France, set to the sobbing sounds of the andantino of Schubert's penultimate sonata. Boring wouldn't be fair comment: simply fatiguing. A rich person watching this might feel guilty and switch it off; a poor person, sick of life's drudgery, depressed and switch it off. A middle class person, eager for the approval of his peers, would give it an award and then never see it again. Quoth the raven, Nevermore- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not for candy floss worshipers
By montpelier (32 reviews) from Roberts End , 11 Mar 2013It is a bit harder to understand unless one has some sensitivity and appreciation. Not for american worshipping candy floss meaningless mind numbing violence, sex, drugs, vacuous film, where one only needs a very limited cerebral capacity.- Was this review helpful to you?
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I don't know what the fuss is about
By a customer from london , 12 Feb 2010This film was dissapointing - I don't know why people have raved about it. The story lacks continuity, and I don't understand the motivation of the main female character at all.
The acting is also very poor.
I really did like it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Ambivalent
By Cato (703 reviews) from Lydbury North , 15 Jan 2010I must admit to being rather ambivalent about this one. Now I'm fond of all animals, both four and two legged, and those with only one or three legs for that matter, or even none at all, but I couldn't quite get hold of the idea that a donkey could take on the weight of man's sins, for all the beautifully benign look in his big brown eyes. Not only that, but I even found it difficult to follow the plot at times, wondering just who was going to be the next poor mortal to commit another cardinal sin and load more woe onto poor old Balthazar's halter. Ultimately I found the film distressingly depressing. Perhaps it should have been given a D certificate.- Was this review helpful to you?
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