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Pif Magazine
ISSN: 1094-2726

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Remembering Bresson

In December, director Robert Bresson died in France at the age of 93. Bresson leaves behind a legacy of essential films that are all but forgotten in an age where filmgoers simply can not be bothered with films that attempt to portray the human condition in anything but the most shallow terms. These are vital, uncompromising films that deal with the effects of society on the individual. In Bresson’s world, the individual strives to find a place for oneself in a society that does not value individuality. Austere and literate, Bresson’s films are nonetheless supremely visual works — dialogue often sparse — that are made with Bresson’s simple, economic style.

With the current cinema in a state of incredible idiocy — no other decade has yielded more genuinely horrible films and horribly overpraised films than the '90s — Bresson’s films seem to belong to another age entirely.

"Bresson’s cinema is stripped to the bone; there is no music on the soundtrack, no extraneous camera movement, no indulgence of the audience. What we get is simply a series of events that play themselves out like events in a documentary..."

"Bresson's The Devil, Probably presents such an uncompromising investigation into the causes of a young man’s suicide that, for some, the film will be nigh impossible to watch, let alone enjoy. Cinema rarely achieves the brutal honesty of this film..."

"Bresson films the world in medium close-up, from the shoulders to the knees, a world of arms and hands acting without heads. The montages here of the pickpockets practicing their art are brilliant and memorable, comprised of quick cuts that mirror the nimble gestures of the thieves..."

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