ROBERT BRESSON - THE CINEMA OF TRANSCENDENCE

What Robert Bresson intended to build with his films, Paul Schrader defines it with this formula, "the cinema of transcendence".

Born in the French region of Auvergne in 1901, Bresson has always characterized his projects with a strong intellectual depth, going to challenge the usual cinematographic rules and deeply affecting with an authoritative and original voice.

Often defined as a "minimalist author", Bresson loved to tell through bare and motionless images (going against the same definition of "art of moving images"), giving the sound a dramatic and aesthetic space, as no director had ever done before: exemplary in this regard, I recommend seeing A Man Escaped (1956).

A distinctive feature of his way of making films was to use non-professional actors and ask them to act as little as possible. Bresson wanted their face to remain impassive, without transmitting any specific emotion and making the jokes flow simply by being themselves.

Throughout his career, Bresson has reflected deeply on the same cinematographic medium and on the ability that cinema has to unravel the mysteries of human action.

To be seen:
Pickpocket (1959) - describes the birth and redemption of a city thief
Au hasard balthazar (1966) - "The world in an hour and a half" (J. L. Godard)
L'argent (1983) - a severe appeal to the destructiveness of greed

Sorry for my english, Google Translator's "fault" ;)