She pawned her last possessions, a golden cross, and he was shocked by her beauty. She refused to give more money. Beauty and shopkeeper, one cherishes the soul, the other is greedy for material things. A mismatched marriage begins with a known ending: she trades death for freedom. Then there is the first-person story of the shopkeeper, who struggles to find the cause of his wife's suicide but in vain. As the audience falls into a fog, he justifies himself, and the picture story becomes more and more tense. Her mystery is Bresson's blank, the audience's interpretation space. The director likes to turn actors into "models". This time, he brought in the real model Dumingni Sander, not because of her beauty, but because of her voice, but Sander's stillness is surging and infectious. Bresson's first color adds cruelty to gentleness.
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