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Robert Bresson Biography |
Robert Bresson (September 25, 1907 - December 18, 1999) was a French film director and master of minimalism.
Biography
Initially a painter and photographer, Bresson made his first short film, Les affaires publiques (Public Affairs) in 1934. During World War II, he spent over a year in a prisoner-of-war camp.
In 1943, Bresson made his first feature, Les Anges du p�ch� (Angels of Sin), based on Denis Diderot's Jacques Le Fataliste. His next project, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945), (The Ladies of Boulogne Forest) was based upon the work of Jean Cocteau.
Bresson's best-known films, Journal d'un cur� de campagne (1953) (Diary of a Country Priest) and L'Argent (1983) (The Money) are famous for their austere style and their bleak, existential view of life.
In 1976, Bresson published Notes sur le Cin�matographe, in which he argued that cinematography is the higher function of cinema: whereas a movie is in essence "only" filmed theatre, cinematography is an attempt to create a new language of moving images and sounds via montage.
Filmography (as director)
L'argent (1983)
Le diable probablement (1977)
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Quatre nuits d'un r�veur (1971)
Une femme douce (1969)
Mouchette (1967)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Proc�s de Jeanne d'Arc (1962)
Pickpocket (1959)
Un condamn� � mort s'est �chapp� ou Le vent souffle o� il veut (1956) - aka A Man Escaped
Journal d'un cur� de campagne (1951) - aka Diary of a Country Priest
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Les Anges du p�ch� (1943)
Les affaires publiques (1934) |
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