The first in a season of films by this distinguished French director
Tonight's film starring Nadine Nortier, Marie Cardinal, Paul Hebert

Mouchette is a 14-year-old school-girl living with her alcoholic father and bedridden mother in a small French peasant community. Isolated and friendless, she is shunned by her school fellows and repelled by the hostile world around her.
With characteristic economy of dialogue, Bresson paints a moving portrait of his tragic child heroine and her world which has all the elements of a religious parable.
This Week's Films: page 11