Au hasard Balthasar

…of this first-person technique was Au hasard Balthasar (1968), in which the “person” was a donkey. Bresson’s own devout Catholicism was also woven into his works; several films, notably Pickpocket (1959) and Le Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (1962; The Trial of Joan of Arc), abruptly concluded with the leading character…

…events (a car wreck in Au Hasard Balthasar [1966]; a bank robbery in L’Argent) defies standard filmmaking conventions and reaches toward a peculiarly valuable way of understanding an interior or spiritual drama. Bresson’s sound techniques became part of his austere and evocative style.