What is Au Hasard Balthazar's IQ Score?

Au Hasard Balthazar has an IQ Score of 183/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 48/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 40/50 Educational Value, and 50/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Au Hasard Balthazar educational?

Au Hasard Balthazar is strong on educational value, 40/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Au Hasard Balthazar , IQ Score 183/200

Name: Au Hasard Balthazar
Genre: drama
Rating: 183
Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Pierre Klossowski, René Pascal

Au Hasard Balthazar has an IQ Score of 183/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-24·Methodology

drama

183/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,587 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Robert Bresson →

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The TVI Take

Bresson's donkey-as-saint follows Balthazar through a series of human owners, each crueler than the last. Godard called it the world in 90 minutes.

A moral and theological film without a single preaching frame. Perhaps the most purely Bressonian work.

People & Production Robert Bresson · Argos Films · Sweden 17 connections