By Robert Bresson. I know I saw Diary of a Country Priest, and I think I saw Mouchette, but both years ago. I suspect I liked them better than this one, and that they may have been less talky.

I wouldn’t normally be opposed to talkiness, but Bresson would use non-actors and, according to Wikipedia, would try to get them to be as blank and stiff as possible. Maybe that could have even been an interesting style if at least the dialog were more realistic. If something rang true in any of this. I was watching with English subtitles, but I doubt it was misrepresenting the French greatly.

Maybe he should have tried his hand at cartooning, or at least done a Chris Marker.

I was in sympathy with some of what he was trying to express with the film.