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
Prothon has the anguished blankness of a Robert Bresson principal.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022
Initially a film critic before he turned to moviemaking, he published the book-length study “Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer” in 1972.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2021
Some critics were reminded of Robert Bresson, whose 1959 “Pickpocket” is a masterpiece of elliptical cinema.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2021
This was where Bresson must have flung his parcel, or, rather, dropped it.
From The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective by Leblanc, Maurice
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