Robert Bresson : a passion for film /

French filmmaker Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor. This book gives equal attention to the films, the...

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Main Author: Pipolo, Tony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rules of the game : Les anges du péche, Les dames du bois de Boulogne
  • Author, author : Journal d'un curé de campagne
  • Triumphs of the will : Un condamné à mort s'est échappé, Pickpocket
  • The young virgins of the provinces I : Procès de Jeanne d'Arc
  • The middle of the road : Au hasard Balthazar
  • The young virgins of the provinces II : Mouchette
  • Dostoevsky in Paris : Une femme douce, Quatre nuits d'un rêveur
  • The ultimate geste : Lancelot du Lac
  • Angels and demons : Le Diable Probablement, L'argent
  • Afterword.