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Au Hasard Balthazar

1966 · directed by Robert Bresson · 96 min
24,791 feet · Prominence
563rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw22

Lifetime worldwide gross $0m, re-releases included; about $0m in 2026 money.

Rank9,876 of 11,051In 196631 of 34

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise99

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics99 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy65

Judged directly: Deeply canonical Bresson, culturally quiet.

Verdict65 of 100IMDb7.7 from 23kWikipedia7k views a monthAge60 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 427 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 22 praise 99 legacy 65averages 62, placing it at24,791 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ François Lafarge▲ Walter Green

In these careers — elevation for this film

Anne Wiazemsky18,224 ftFrançois Lafarge17,972 ftJean-Claude Guilbert17,853 ftWalter Green17,789 ft