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There will be no escape for Mouchette, this has been made clear from the outset when, before the title credits, the mother, while sitting on a church stool, asks, вЂњWhat will become of them without me?вЂќ, and by how the answer to this question feels like a stone right here in her chest. The stumbling sound they make seems to be the soundtrack to a life of loneliness spent as an outcast amidst the villagers of a town somewhere in the backlands of France, that country that would soon explode but for now still lives in a tranquility close to stasis, the days following each other with the ruthless tempo of premeditated murder. The first thing we notice about this young woman, after she has been introduced to us by a classmate with the word of which we cannot be sure if itвЂ™s her given or nickname, are the sounds of her shoes, so distinctly different from the others girls, that you cannot help yourself being overcome with ruth, in all its biblical connotations. If the famous painting Shoes by Vincent van Gogh had the power of summoning up the whole world of which they were a part, the roads whereon and the sky where under they fulfilled their service, no less could be said of the shoes of little Mouchette (Nadine Nortier), the eponymous heroine in BressonвЂ™s last film before what would become known as May вЂ™68. By using two films of the great French filmmaker Robert Bresson that have a lot of themes in common and narrative similarities, not in the least both of them ending with suicide, I want to delve deeper into this myth of freedom by dialectically opposing their two protagonists using the ideals of May вЂ™68 as the tipping point that has been made of it. The idea of a young person having the freedom to define themselves cut loose from or in direct opposition with their lineage and tradition is not unproblematic. The idea of leaving oneвЂ™s native soil behind seems to be a very recent one and seems interwoven with the even more recent idea of new generations as ruptures with what came before. And yet it would still take a while for these ideas to become spread more widely and wildly through the events of May вЂ™68. The cluster of Balzacian stories in which men come to the city to try their luck, had been inconceivable before one man tried and made it all the way to the highest echelons. The feat he pulled off by becoming the Emperor of France even though he came from rather humble beginnings, sent waves through a landscape that had been mostly immobile. Of Balzac it has been written, by Roberto Calasso if I am not mistaken, that the whole of La ComГ©die humaine has been grown under the brilliant sun of one man by the name of Napoleon. Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble (2016)

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Right now, the earth is full of refugees, human and not, without refuge.