
Georges Bernanos, Mouchette, 1966
"I want to concentrate, constantly, absolutely, on one face, the face of this little girl, to see her reactions. . .
That is what interests me. The camera will not leave her"
Bresson explained to Jean-Luc Godard in a 1966 Cahiers du cinema
interview that preceded the films release
Mouchette, in false tones, sings the following lyrics: > Mouchette singing
Espérez! Plus d’espérance!
Trois jours, leur dit Colomb,
En montrant le ciel immense
le fond de l’horizon
“Trois jours et je vous donne un monde
Vous qui n’avez plus d’espoir”
Sur l’immensité profonde
Ses yeux s’ouvraient pour le voir
* Hope! Hope is dead!
Three days, Columbus said to them,
Pointing to the vast sky ahead
that stretched beyond the horizon
“Three days and I’ll give you a world
to you who have no more hope”
Over the vast depths
He opened wide his eyes

“Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.”
“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery, the feeling that she was about to learn what she had been unable to learn from her brief experience of love. What she thought about death was childish, but what could never have touched her in the past now filled her with poignant tenderness, as sometimes a familiar face we see suddenly with the eyes of love makes us aware that it has been dearer to us than life itself for longer than we have ever realized.” Georges Bernanos, Mouchette, 1966
Mouchette (1967)
Director: Robert Bresson
Georges Bernanos (novel), Robert Bresson (scenario & adaptation and dialogue)
Stars: Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal
Music: Jean Wiener
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