Drama
French
1966 · Directed by Robert Bresson · 96 min
A donkey is born on a French farm, baptised, loved by children, then passed from owner to owner across the countryside. Robert Bresson follows the animal and a young woman, Marie, in a spare, quiet film that asks you to watch closely rather than be told what to feel.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining work of Bresson's late-1960s period and of European art cinema, showing that a film could be almost entirely stripped of conventional drama and still carry tragic and spiritual weight.
Watch with intention
Watch how Bresson makes you feel by withholding: faces stay blank, and the meaning comes from objects, gestures and what is left out.
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