“Bresson is rightfully revered for taking great big abstractions like loss and transcendence and making fearless and unflinching films about them. On the surface, Au hasard, Balthasar details the life and cruel death of a donkey in rural France, yet also encompasses the suffering and descent into sexual nihilism of the donkey’s first owner Marie (the haunting Anne Wiazemsky), the cruelty that one man can inflict, indiscriminately, on beast and woman and fellow man, and the horrifyingly self-focused nature of humanity."
~ Jason Shawhan
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