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Robert Bresson - A Passion for Film (Hardcover)
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Robert Bresson - A Passion for Film (Hardcover)
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The films of the late French filmmaker Robert Bresson, once thought
formidable both because of the somberness of their subject matter
and the austerity of the filmmaker's style, have in the last decade
found a new audience. In part, this is owing to the rarely
acknowledged but profound influence his style has had on later
filmmakers-from Chantal Akerman to Michael Haeneke. This book looks
at Bresson's body of work not only by coming to terms with its
thematic preoccupations and the development of its unique authorial
style, but also in terms of the ouvre's seminal place in the
history of film. The filmic rhetoric that Bresson pursued was
nothing less than an effort to create an exemplary form of film
narrative, throwing off the conventions of the theater and acting
that still dominate mainstream filmmaking. In this respect,
Bresson's films are no less ground-breaking than those of D.W.
Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein. In addition, while few who have
written about Bresson would deny the highly personal and
idiosyncratic nature of his work, its autobiographical dimension
has never been fully explored. This constitutes a rich vein for
investigation and the films-in both their subject matter and
style-mirror and trace the aesthetic and psychological dispositions
of the filmmaker. What one discovers in these explorations is a
deeper relationship between the filmmaker and his literary
models-especially the novelists Georges Bernanos and Fyodor
Dostoevsky. With both, he also shares convictions about the
"fallennature of humanity, an attitude of mourning for the loss of
childhood innocence, a strong preoccupation with Christian
theology, and the role evil and sexuality play in our lives. In
this book Bresson's sources, style, and biography are explored via
a chronological investigation of his films, yielding a dense
analysis worthy of this master filmmaker.
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