Robert Bresson
Date of Birth: 25 Sep 1901
Country: France
Biography: With a life stretching over nearly the entire 20th century (1901-1999), Robert Bresson accumulated a lot of experiences. He was a both a photographer and a prisoner of war before turning his attention to cinema. Bresson made just 13 feature-length films... but what films they are.
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 14 (Director), 15 (Writer)
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The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette. (imdb)
A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial)... (imdb)
Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime... (imdb)
In Ambricourt, a young Priest (Claude Laydu) arrives to be the local parish priest. The community of the small town does not accept him... (imdb)
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option. (imdb)
A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is (imdb)
French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape... (imdb)
Realizing that her lover (Jean) is losing interest in her, a society lady (Helene) gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute (imdb)
Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her... (imdb)
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met... (imdb)
A million miles away from 'Camelot' or 'Excalibur', this film ruthlessly strips the Arthurian legend down to its barest essentials. Arthur's knights, far from being heroic, are conniving and greedy men who, just before the film starts, have failed miserably to find the Holy Grail. Aimlessly resentful at first, the developing relationship between Lancelot and Queen Guinevere focuses their rage, leading to inevitable tragedy. (imdb)
Rich young Anne-Marie thinks she has found her vocation when she joins a Dominican convent as a novice... (imdb)
The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night. Gradually, he discovers that her lover promised to meet her on the bridge that night, and he failed to turn up. Over the next couple of nights, Jacques falls in love with her - but on the fourth night her original lover returns... (imdb)
Les Affaires publiques (1934) - Short Film
Bresson's first film is, totally uncharacteristically, a slapstick comedy, centred around two neighbouring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching of a ship, and the crash-landing of a Miremian pilot in Crogandian territory. (imdb)
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.