The films of
Robert Bresson
Les Anges du péché (1943)
Robert Bresson 		  Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Robert Bresson 		  Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951)
Robert Bresson 		 
     
Robert Bresson’s first full-length film contains many of the essential ingredients and themes which would recur time and again in his subsequent works...  [More...]   Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne is an unusual film for director Robert Bresson, primarily because it adheres, more than any of his other films, to the film-making conventions of the day...  [More...]   In his film adaptation of Bernanos’s tragic novel, Robert Bresson paints a deeply moving picture of the triumph of faith over worldly suffering and the worst in human nature...  [More...]  
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (1956)
Robert Bresson 		  Pickpocket (1959)
Robert Bresson 		  Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962)
Robert Bresson 		 
     
Although it has some fierce competition, this is probably the best film made by French film director Robert Bresson. It somehow encapsulates every element of Bresson’s unique kind of cinema at the same time as being...  [More...]   For this film, Bresson takes as his cue Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, in which the central character Raskolnikov argues that crime is a justifiable activity for certain privileged individuals...  [More...]   This depiction of the Joan of Arc story is typical of Robert Bresson’s austere style of cinema, stripping the story to its bare bones and concentrating far more on the nature of the human ordeal than historical...  [More...]  
Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Robert Bresson 		  Mouchette (1967)
Robert Bresson 		  Une femme douce (1969)
Robert Bresson 		 
     
This is a deeply poignant film. Although Christian imagery is present throughout (particularly towards the end), the film is genuinely moving without being sentimental...  [More...]   Robert Bresson’s most pessimistic film, and also his most controversial, is a bleak picture of a young woman’s irreversible descent into misery and self-destruction...  [More...]   Robert Bresson’s first colour film sees a marked change in the director’s style from the cold austerity and intensity of his earlier works...  [More...]  
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Robert Bresson 		  Le Diable probablement (1977)
Robert Bresson 		  L'Argent (1983)
Robert Bresson 		 
     
In Lancelot du Lac, Bresson offers a hauntingly minimalist treatment of the Arthurian legend. Stripping the story to its bare essentials and focusing on the human souls rather than their heroic exploits...  [More...]   Robert Bresson’s darkest film, probably. Filmed in the minimalist, yet effective, style that distinguished Bresson’s later films, Le Diable probablement is a film which reflects both Bresson’s belief...  [More...]   L’argent is Robert Bresson’s final film and the summit of a career as a film director spanning 40 years. If not his best film, it is quite possibly his most intense and thought-provoking...  [More...]  





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