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The movie also served as inspiration for the interactive website ''[[https://mouchette.org/ Mouchette.org]]'', created by Martine Neddam in 1996. The website appears innocent at first glance and presents itself as the creation of a thirteen-year-old artist girl known as "Mouchette"; however, as the viewer delves deeper, [[SurpriseCreepy the site's content becomes increasingly darker]], with references to [[PaedoHunt child sexual abuse]] and {{suicide}}.
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The movie also served as inspiration for the interactive website ''[[https://mouchette.org/ Mouchette.org]]'', created by Martine Neddam in 1996. The website appears innocent at first glance and presents itself as the creation of a thirteen-year-old artist girl known as "Mouchette"; however, as the viewer delves deeper, [[SurpriseCreepy the site's content becomes increasingly darker]], with references to [[PaedoHunt child sexual abuse]] and {{suicide}}.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Film/AuHasardBalthazar. Only that time that was a donkey, now it is a human little girl.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Film/AuHasardBalthazar.''Film/AuHasardBalthazar''. Only that time that was a donkey, now it is a human little girl.
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''Mouchette'' is a 1967 film by Creator/RobertBresson. It is somewhat of a twin movie to Film/AuHasardBalthazar which appeared a year earlier the differing being that Balthazar was a donkey and Mouchette a little girl. In any case the film is dedicated to the plight of the meekest and the weakest.
''Mouchette'' is a 1967 film by Creator/RobertBresson. It is somewhat of a twin movie to Film/AuHasardBalthazar which appeared a year earlier the differing being that Balthazar was a donkey and Mouchette a little girl. In any case the film is dedicated to the plight of the meekest and the weakest.
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* PaedoHunt: [[spoiler:Played terrifyingly straight with Mouchette in the end when Arsène assaults her in her cabin.]]
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* PaedoHunt: [[spoiler:Played terrifyingly straight with Mouchette in the end end, when Arsène assaults her in her cabin.]]
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* HopeSpot: Mouchette has one of these when she drives the bumper cars at the fair. One of the other cars is driven by a boy, and she and Mouchette laugh and have fun crashing into each other. [[spoiler: Then her dad notices and drags her away.]] Incidentally one of the few scenes in a Bresson movie where his trademark DullSurprise is forcibly averted: Nadine Nortier as Mouchette is actually ''grinning''.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Mouchette has a brief moment of fun at a fair where she plays in a bumper car and develops an attraction to a boy, but the day is quickly ruined by her father appearing to slap her and drag her away.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Mouchette has a brief moment of fun at a fair where she plays in a bumper car and develops an attraction to a boy, but the day is quickly ruined by her father appearing to slap her and drag her away. Incidentally one of the few scenes in a Bresson movie where his trademark DullSurprise is forcibly averted: Nadine Nortier as Mouchette is actually ''grinning''.
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* HopeSpot: Mouchette has one of these when she drives the bumper cars at the fair. One of the other cars is driven by a boy, and she and Mouchette laugh and have fun crashing into each other. [[spoiler: Then her dad notices and drags her away.]]
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* HopeSpot: Mouchette has one of these when she drives the bumper cars at the fair. One of the other cars is driven by a boy, and she and Mouchette laugh and have fun crashing into each other. [[spoiler: Then her dad notices and drags her away.]]]] Incidentally one of the few scenes in a Bresson movie where his trademark DullSurprise is forcibly averted: Nadine Nortier as Mouchette is actually ''grinning''.
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* HopeSpot: Mouchette has one of these when she drives the bumper cars at the fair. One of the other cars is driven by a boy, and she and Mouchette laugh and have fun crashing into each other. [[spoiler: Then her dad notices and drags her away.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Mouchette, after being fed up that, with her mother's death, there isn't anyone to care about her anymore.]]
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* BrokenBird: Mouchette [[spoiler:especially after her mother's death. She can hardly function.]]
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* BrokenBird: Mouchette [[spoiler:especially after her rape and her mother's death. She can hardly function.]]
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The film is shot in black-and-white, highlighting the bleakness of the story.
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* AbusiveParents: Mouchette's father physically and verbally abuses her.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The woman at the shop appears friendly at first, inviting Mouchette in for free croissants and coffee [[spoiler:and sympathy over her mother's death]] but then rips into her and calls her a shameless slut [[spoiler:after discovering evidence of her rape.]]
* BrokenBird: Mouchette [[spoiler:especially after her mother's death. She can hardly function.]]
* BrokenTears: Mouchette can't stop crying while taking care of her baby brother [[spoiler:after she's raped by Arsène.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The woman at the shop appears friendly at first, inviting Mouchette in for free croissants and coffee [[spoiler:and sympathy over her mother's death]] but then rips into her and calls her a shameless slut [[spoiler:after discovering evidence of her rape.]]
* BrokenBird: Mouchette [[spoiler:especially after her mother's death. She can hardly function.]]
* BrokenTears: Mouchette can't stop crying while taking care of her baby brother [[spoiler:after she's raped by Arsène.]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: [[spoiler:Mouchette's mother, who seemed to be a much better parent than her father, dies.]]
* DownerBeginning: The film opens with Mouchette's mother revealing that she has terminal breast cancer, and worrying about the fate of her children.
* DownerBeginning: The film opens with Mouchette's mother revealing that she has terminal breast cancer, and worrying about the fate of her children.
* KidsAreCruel: Mouchette has no friends and is bullied by the other girls at school.
* LeftHanging: The drama with Arsène is never resolved.
* LoveTriangle: Despite being married, Mathieu has feelings for Louisa, who hangs a lot around Arsène. [[spoiler:It's over her that they have their big fight at the middle of the film.]]
* LeftHanging: The drama with Arsène is never resolved.
* LoveTriangle: Despite being married, Mathieu has feelings for Louisa, who hangs a lot around Arsène. [[spoiler:It's over her that they have their big fight at the middle of the film.]]
* NoNameGiven: Most of the characters, including Mouchette's family, aren't given names.
* OhCrap: Mouchette, when she realizes that [[spoiler:Mathieu is still alive and well.]]
* OhCrap: Mouchette, when she realizes that [[spoiler:Mathieu is still alive and well.]]
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* PaedoHunt: [[spoiler: Played terrifyingly straight with Mouchette in the end]]
* ParentalNeglect: For poor Mouchette.
* ParentalNeglect: For poor Mouchette.
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* PaedoHunt: [[spoiler: Played [[spoiler:Played terrifyingly straight with Mouchette in the end]]
end when Arsène assaults her in her cabin.]]
** RapeAsDrama: And only Mathieu's wife seems to care about it.
* ParentalNeglect: For poor Mouchette. Due to her mother's illness and her father's alcoholism, she's basically on her own all the time.
* PrecociousCrush: Mouchette develops one on Arsène for seemingly no other reason than [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe he's one of the few people to not immediately abuse her]]. [[spoiler:Then he rapes her, and she's so broken that she just succumbs and even stays the night with him and claims he's her lover, even though she's clearly upset and traumatized by the assault.]]
* SadistTeacher: Mouchette's teacher loathes her, and humiliates her during a singing lesson.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Pretty much nothing good happens to Mouchette during the course of the film. Basically everyone hates or abuses her, she rarely gets to enjoy life, [[spoiler:she gets raped by her crush, her mother dies, and she decides to commit suicide.]]
** RapeAsDrama: And only Mathieu's wife seems to care about it.
* ParentalNeglect: For poor Mouchette. Due to her mother's illness and her father's alcoholism, she's basically on her own all the time.
* PrecociousCrush: Mouchette develops one on Arsène for seemingly no other reason than [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe he's one of the few people to not immediately abuse her]]. [[spoiler:Then he rapes her, and she's so broken that she just succumbs and even stays the night with him and claims he's her lover, even though she's clearly upset and traumatized by the assault.]]
* SadistTeacher: Mouchette's teacher loathes her, and humiliates her during a singing lesson.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Pretty much nothing good happens to Mouchette during the course of the film. Basically everyone hates or abuses her, she rarely gets to enjoy life, [[spoiler:she gets raped by her crush, her mother dies, and she decides to commit suicide.]]
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* UntranslatedTitle: It is ''Mouchette'' both in French and English.
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* UntranslatedTitle: It is ''Mouchette'' both in French and English.English.
* YankTheDogsChain: Mouchette has a brief moment of fun at a fair where she plays in a bumper car and develops an attraction to a boy, but the day is quickly ruined by her father appearing to slap her and drag her away.
* YankTheDogsChain: Mouchette has a brief moment of fun at a fair where she plays in a bumper car and develops an attraction to a boy, but the day is quickly ruined by her father appearing to slap her and drag her away.
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Mouchette is a 1967 film by Creator/RobertBresson. It is somewhat of a twin movie to Film/AuHasardBalthazar which appeared a year earlier the differing being that Balthazar was a donkey and Mouchette a little girl. In any case the film is dedicated to the plight of the meekest and the weakest.
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''Mouchette'' is a 1967 film by Creator/RobertBresson. It is somewhat of a twin movie to Film/AuHasardBalthazar which appeared a year earlier the differing being that Balthazar was a donkey and Mouchette a little girl. In any case the film is dedicated to the plight of the meekest and the weakest.
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* MeaningfulName:L Mouchette means ''a small fly''
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* MeaningfulName:L MeaningfulName: Mouchette means ''a small fly''
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Mouchette is a 1967 film by Creator/RobertBresson. It is somewhat of a twin movie to Film/AuHasardBalthazar which appeared a year earlier the differing being that Balthazar was a donkey and Mouchette a little girl. In any case the film is dedicated to the plight of the meekest and the weakest.
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* CrapsackWorld: The provincial France of the mid-60's is a very backward and cruel country.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mouchette drowns herself in the end.]]
* MeaningfulName:L Mouchette means ''a small fly''
* ProtagonistTitle: ''Mouchette''.
* PaedoHunt: [[spoiler: Played terrifyingly straight with Mouchette in the end]]
* ParentalNeglect: For poor Mouchette.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Film/AuHasardBalthazar. Only that time that was a donkey, now it is a human little girl.
* UntranslatedTitle: It is ''Mouchette'' both in French and English.
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!! Tropes
* CrapsackWorld: The provincial France of the mid-60's is a very backward and cruel country.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mouchette drowns herself in the end.]]
* MeaningfulName:L Mouchette means ''a small fly''
* ProtagonistTitle: ''Mouchette''.
* PaedoHunt: [[spoiler: Played terrifyingly straight with Mouchette in the end]]
* ParentalNeglect: For poor Mouchette.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Film/AuHasardBalthazar. Only that time that was a donkey, now it is a human little girl.
* UntranslatedTitle: It is ''Mouchette'' both in French and English.
