Robert Bresson / Nadine Nortier - Mouchette

Robert Bressons sombre drama is an unsentimental take on a teenagers tragic home life. 14-year-old Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) is an inarticulate peasant girl, whose mother is terminally ill, and whose father, an alcoholic, abuses her. Unloved and seeing no hope for the future, Mouchette contemplates taking her own life.