Bresson
Britishnoun
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It’s a wonderfully understated method to refresh audience interest in such figures as Claude Chabrol, Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Like Bresson, Jackson uses hands to remind us that our identities consist of more than faces and names, that a touch or a gesture can be equally expressive of who we are.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
We went really high and deliberately quite obnoxious — Bergman, Tarkovsky, Rohmer, Bresson.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
This technique has a long history in cinema, from Robert Bresson and the Italian neorealists to the Dardenne Brothers and Abbas Kiarostami more recently.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
Several years later, on his return from St. Petersburg, he stopped in Berlin, where he was invited to a grand dinner at the home of the Count and Countess Bresson.
From Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd
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