Mouchette

Moushette is a fourteen-year-old girl living in a poor village. Her mother is dying from a severe illness, her father drinks, and her younger brother needs to be fed somehow, while school becomes a place of humiliation. Moushette feels deeply lonely, desperately seeking feelings of connection and warmth, but only encounters betrayal and violence. One day in the forest, she comes across a poacher named Arsen, which leads to a series of events that ultimately shatter her world.

"Moushette," and perhaps all the inexhaustible, majestic films of Bresson, unfold in a mysterious space in between. It remains a beautiful mystery how a director with such perceptiveness and attention to the visible material world can simultaneously imply the relevance of the invisible, the ineffable, and the otherworldly.