Fortnightly Screening
Sat, 13 Sept
|GKCM Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneswar
Time & Location
13 Sept 2025, 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
GKCM Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, PLOT No. 1/A, JAYADEV VIHAR, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751013, India
About The Event
Au Hasard Balthazar
Dir: Robert Bresson
(1966/95 mins/France)
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson’s unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence.
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Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski