Au Hasard Balthazar [Criterion Collection]

"Filmmaker Robert Bresson is well known for taking subjects that on the surface seem ordinary and insignificant and using simple means, showing viewers something rare and powerful. This heartbreaking yet thought-provoking drama tells the life story of a French donkey, but in true Bresson fashion is really a grim, ironic reflection on human nature. The donkey's first experience with humans is as the much-loved pet of small children on a French farm, but its next is as a creature of toil when...