ピレネーの小村。教師の娘マリーは農園主の息子ジャックと共に、生まれたばかりのロバに“バルタザール”と名前をつけ可愛がる。ある日ジャックが引っ越すことになり、バルタザールもどこかへ行ってしまう。10年後、バルタザールが再び現れ、マリーが喜んであちこち“彼”に馬車を引かせ出かけるのを見て、彼女に思慕を寄せる不良のジェラールは嫉妬し、バルタザールを痛めつけ、実家のパン屋の仕事にこき使う・・・。
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監督: Robert Bresson
脚本: Robert Bresson
音楽: Jean Wiener
制作: Mag Bodard
撮影監督: Ghislain Cloquet
制作会社: Argos films / Parc Film / SF Studios / Svenska Filminstitutet
Devastating. Crazy to see Adele Exarchopoulos so young. You'll never hear the sound of a donkey braying the same way again
The novice actor Anne Wiazemsky is really effective as "Marie", a young woman who has shared most of her life with her donkey "Baltahzar". Initially her childhood pet, this creature has spent much of his life as the victim of inhumane treatment at the hands of subsequent owners - including her rather wretched boyfriend "Gérard" (François Lafarge) - that in may ways mirrors her own mistreatment and unhappiness. Unlike the human beings, though, "Balthazar" cannot communicate his feelings - he must quite literally just grin and bear it as he is used as a beast of burden, exposed to all weathers and generally neglected. Robert Bresson uses this scenario to compare and contrast the treatment of this animal with the way people treat each other - generous and engaging when they want something; brutal and selfish when they have or don't want it any more. This film offers us a depressing, yet curiously uplifting at times, view of the fickleness of youth and the intolerance of age - subtly. The dialogue is curiously aloof - almost superfluous as the story and their intertwined lives advance with an inevitability as certain and life and death itself. The photography is lingering and intimate, the pace gentle and it's touching. It is also real and gritty and plausible - and certainly a film that leaves you thinking.
