Balthazar (re-release)
User Score
7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 73 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 73
  3. Negative: 16 out of 73

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  1. Darkstarshades
    Oct 3, 2011
    0
    Simply disliked it, however, everyone say itervs just awesome, My wife and I don't think so, I felt asleep, however, I must say that the acting and the effects are... good... I think so... or maybe bad.
  2. JohnQ.
    Mar 23, 2004
    2
    Why would you want to feel the agony of existence?
  3. JohnQ.
    Mar 23, 2004
    2
    Why would you want to feel the agony of existence?
  4. TiffyB.
    Feb 7, 2005
    4
    I'm puzzled by the brouhaha around this film. While I generally like moody foreign films, especially those that deal with spiritual themes, I found myself completely turned off by a plot that I found often incoherent and acting which was execrable. And what's with this always pointing the camera at the character's feet? Is that supposed to be the donkey's point of view, or what? Cinematography was otherwise excellent, music fine, & concept fascinating but not well executed.… Expand

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Metascore
100 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    100
    This great film, made with uncompromising honesty and devastating reality, is, according to Jean-Luc Godard, "the world in an hour and a half."
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  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    100
    To cut to the chase, Robert Bresson's heart-breaking and magnificent Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) -- the story of a donkey's life and death in rural France -- is the supreme masterpiece by one of the greatest of 20th-century filmmakers.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    100
    If in Bresson's films nothing ever seems out of place or superfluous it's because he strove to find the essential truth of the image. Not an image or sound is wasted -- or offered up in self-glorification -- and from such seeming simplicity there arises a world of feeling.
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