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Robert Bresson
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25 September 1901 - 18 December 1999
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For most moviegoers and even moviegoers, the name of the director Bresson will say little. He’s not a filmmaker or even a movie director. Bresson himself divided two concepts: cinema (the filmed theater – by his definition) and cinema – “writing with images that move, and sounds.” He was engaged in cinematography, and he did not like or shoot movies. His films were called elitist, intellectual, exclusive, transcendental. And perhaps no definition was accurate. Bresson did without specially created
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For most moviegoers and even moviegoers, the name of the director Bresson will say little. He’s not a filmmaker or even a movie director. Bresson himself divided two concepts: cinema (the filmed theater – by his definition) and cinema – “writing with images that move, and sounds.” He was engaged in cinematography, and he did not like or shoot movies. His films were called elitist, intellectual, exclusive, transcendental. And perhaps no definition was accurate. Bresson did without specially created scenery, special effects, and often without actors. Of the Russian filmmakers, his follower, Tarkovsky, is closest to him. His films did not give crazy box office, but Jean-Luc Godard once said that if German music is Mozart, and Russian literature is Dostoevsky, then French cinema is Bresson.
Robert Bresson was born in Auvergne in 1901. He studied painting and after many years uttered a phrase that was often repeated by his fans and followers: “I am an artist and therefore I do not paint in films.” Before directing, Bresson wrote screenplays. Bresson made his first film in 1934. It was called Public Affairs and was a political comedy. The film itself has not survived.
During World War II, he spent a year and a half in a prisoner of war camp. It was there that the idea for his next film, 1943’s Angels of Sin, was born. But, according to critics, the style of “real Bresson” appeared in the film “Diary of a rural priest”. And the tape “The condemned to death fled” is already the handwriting of “mature” Bresson. The most famous and popular of his films: “Pocket” (free summary of “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoevsky), “Au, Balthazar”, “Muchett”, “The Process of Joan of Arc”. Bresson’s last film, Money (a free film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Fake Coupon), was released in 1984. /