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Tag: Robert Bresson

A Gentle Woman, 1969

December 25, 2017 (December 27, 2017) acquarello

A young woman steps off a bedroom balcony and falls to her death, her white shawl hovering above, deflected by the breeze. Her pawnbroker husband (Guy Frangin), speaking with methodical detachment, recounts their relationship in a series of flashbacks. But inevitably, the answers remain as elusive as his lost, despondent (and appropriately nameless) wife (Dominique […]

DirectorsFrench Cinema, Robert Bresson

Mouchette, 1967

December 25, 2017 (December 27, 2017) acquarello

Robert Bresson distills the superficial portrait of the archetypal gamin in order to derive the indelibly bleak and caustic cinematic image of Mouchette. Hardly the hapless waif or endearing pixie, Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) is all too human: a slovenly, unremarkable, and asocial adolescent neglected by a terminally ill mother (Maria Cardinal) and an abusive, alcoholic […]

DirectorsFrench Cinema, Robert Bresson

Au Hasard Balthazar, 1966

December 25, 2017 (December 27, 2017) acquarello

Balthazar is a farm animal – a donkey – born into a life of servitude: a beast of burden destined to work the land, carry bales of hay, provide occasional transportation. His harsh, often exploited existence is paralleled through the life of Marie (Anne Wiazemsky), a reticent young woman whose father (Philippe Asselin) has been […]

DirectorsFrench Cinema, Robert Bresson

Trial of Joan of Arc, 1962

December 25, 2017 (December 27, 2017) acquarello

Trial of Joan of Arc opens to the austere, fragmented image of the hurried footsteps of an indistinguishable figure dressed in a black robe. Carrying a parchment into the vestibule of a chapel, an unidentified woman delivers a personal statement on her daughter’s religious upbringing and death at the hands of the church, visibly supported […]

DirectorsFrench Cinema, Robert Bresson

Pickpocket, 1959

December 25, 2017 (December 27, 2017) acquarello

Michel is an inscrutable young man – neatly dressed, mild mannered, intelligent – hardly the type whom one would suspect to be a pickpocket. And perhaps, that is reason that he does it. Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket is a well crafted, austere, and taut film of a man driven by his self-destructive compulsion. We first encounter […]

DirectorsFrench Cinema, Robert Bresson

A Man Escaped, 1956

December 25, 2017 (December 27, 2017) acquarello

A Man Escaped opens with the indelible image of a pair of restless hands belonging to a French resistance officer named Lieutenant Fontaine (Francois Leterrier). His face is inscrutable and impassive, concealing his calculated attempt to flee from the escorted prison transport vehicle. He reaches for the door handle, retreats, then reaches again. At a […]

DirectorsFrench Cinema, Robert Bresson

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