Spine 297: au hasard Balthazar

We get to watch a movie about a donkey! But the donkey doesn't talk. It's not animated. It's depressing. I'd call au hasard Balthazar peak Bresson, but I'm betting Robert Bresson will keep surprising me. In any case this is the third and final in a string of films that claims inspiration from Fyodor Dostoevsky, and it certainly fits with the Russians' tone (though perhaps not his religiosity).