SUN JUNE 5, 2022 1:30 PM AU HASARD BALTHAZAR $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘Sunday Print Edition’ also part of ‘BLEAK WEEK: Cinema of Despair’ Series This event has passed
ABOUT THE FILM: Robert Bresson’s brief, elliptical tale about the life and death of a donkey contains such plenitude – in its steady accumulation of incident, characters, mystery and social detail, its implicative use of sound, off-screen space and editing – that it might very well merit Godard’s famous claim that it is “the world in an hour and a half.” Paralleling the mistreatment and downfall of two innocents – Marie, a young farmer’s daughter, and Balthazar, a Christ-like donkey passed from one master to the next – the film has been chosen as one of the greatest in cinema history by countless critics and cinephiles. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films