An animal picture for highbrows. Robert Bresson's episodic chronicle of the martyrization of a humble donkey is a sort of Christian existentialist version of Will James's horse story, Smoky, only not so credible in its plotting. Among devout Bressonites, this is sometimes said to be one of his supreme achievements, although the abruptness of its events (a miserable pauper inherits a fortune, and next thing you know he lands on his head), and the mulishly mule's-eye point of view (the demurely downcast camera is usually looking at the ground), are not apt to win Bresson any new converts. With Anne Wiazemsky. (1967) — Duncan Shepherd
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