Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson (September 25, 1901–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.

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1934 - World War II

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In 1943, Bresson made his first feature, Les Anges du péché (Angels of Sin), based on Denis Diderot's Jacques Le Fataliste. His next project, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945), (Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne) was based upon the work of Denis Diderot.

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1943 - Les Anges du péché - Denis Diderot - Jacques Le Fataliste - Les dames du Bois de Boulogne - 1945

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Bresson's best-known films, Journal d'un curé de campagne (1953) (Diary of a Country Priest) and L'Argent (1983) (Money) are famous for their austere style and their bleak, existential view of life.

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Journal d'un curé de campagne - 1953 - L'Argent - 1983 - Existential

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In 1976, Bresson published Notes sur le Cinématographe, 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.

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1976 - Cinematography - Montage

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