Polish film legend Jerzy Skolimowski offers his take on Robert Bresson's classic, using a donkey to indict human mistreatment of animals and nature. Give an animal a name, and it becomes a lot ...

But it’s “the donkey movie” that haunts me most, though I can hardly say why. Perhaps this is part of its power: there is something about Au Hasard Balthazar you can’t quite get hold of.

as more or less a contemporary remake of “Au Hasard Balthazar,” Robert Bresson’s 1966 masterpiece about the life, death and extraordinary beauty of a donkey much like this one. Both ...

One of the most moving and exalting images in all of the cinema comes at the end of Robert Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar”: the shot of the little donkey Balthazar dying on a hillside ...

The donkey, Bresson said ... The most important will be the most hidden.” In “Au hasard Balthazar,” some of the most important and hidden of those ideas concern faith and the fallen ...

Robert Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar” (1966 ... brutal life of a donkey into 95 minutes, the movie somehow achieves a heartbreaking, deeply human vision of the sublime.

This thoughtful and unique French film reveals the surprisingly deep connection between Marie (Anne Wiazemsky), a sensitive farm girl, and her cherished donkey, Balthazar. Though Marie and ...

But Au Hasard, Balthazar is just as much about morality ... could stoop as the perceived sanctity of the innocent, trusting donkey, who bears each vissicitude with patience and humility.

the baby donkey is a child's pet but when they return home, it begins it's life of misery. It works as a farm animal, pulling a delivery cart and working as any manner as various owners require of it.