Animal Sentience: Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar
Animal Sentience: Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar
This essay examines Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar in which, through the filmic congruence of animal and human bodies, we are made to rethink the meaningfulness of the distinction that separates animal and human forms of embodiment—specifically, we are asked to rethink the roles of reason and will in making us who we are, a reconception that owes a debt to “Apology for Raymond Sebond.” For Montaigne animal communication, which does not depend on speech or even voice, has a human equivalent in involuntary gesture and posture.
Keywords: Robert Bresson, Au hasard Balthazar, reason, will, Apology for Raymond Sebond, Michel de Montaigne, animal communication, gesture, posture, language
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