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What We Can Learn From a Simple Tale About a Donkey, ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’
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What We Can Learn From a Simple Tale About a Donkey, ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’

By
Laurence Coupe
/ 30 August 2022

As we see in Au Hasard Balthzazr, director Robert Bresson is no world-hater or sanctimonious moralizer. His spirituality is inseparable from his reverence for the material world.

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‘Psychedelia’ Is All You Can Imagine, and Then Some

By
John L. Murphy
/ 6 February 2013
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Believers Keep on Believin’: Vera Farmiga Envisions a Higher Ground

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 25 August 2011
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Finding ‘Eden’: Can Games be Spiritual Experiences?

By
Kris Ligman
/ 21 June 2011
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‘John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom’: Insider Perspectives

By
Richard Elliott
/ 7 February 2011
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Tribal Spirituality in ‘Populous: The Beginning’

By
Andy Johnson
/ 22 September 2010

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