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Robert Bresson is simply one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema.

We are presenting 4 of his lesser-known films, and they will all be screened on 35mm - we literally cannot contain our excitement! We have been waiting to show Bresson's films for a long time, and this is a rare opportunity.

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ADMIRED BY FILM CRITICS

“An indisputable cinematic genius” – THE GUARDIAN

“One of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema” – CRITERION COLLECTION

“Robert Bresson’s 13 features over 40 years constitute arguably the most original and brilliant body of work over a long career from a film director in the history of cinema.” – SENSES OF CINEMA

http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/bresson/

"Bluntly put, to not get Bresson is to not get the idea of motion pictures." — J. Hoberman, THE VILLAGE VOICE

“It's my view that Bresson was one of the great film artists of the century, one of the great artists of the century.” – WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jan2000/bres-j20.shtml

[About Bresson’s films] "Every film is a must-see!" – Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES

LOVED BY OTHER FILMMAKERS

“The ferocious Martin Scorsese, the flamboyant Bernardo Bertolucci and the operatic poet of Soviet cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky, have all rated him as the greatest film director, as have Paul Schrader, the Spanish director Victor Erice, and the German Wim Wenders.” – THE GUARDIAN

"Robert Bresson is French cinema as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music." — French New Wave Director JEAN-LUC GODARD

“Bresson is a Grand Inquisitor, someone who, despite the risk or the violence involved, penetrates to the very depths of human beings” – French New Wave Director JEAN-LUC GODARD

Andrei Tarkovsky held Bresson in very high regard, noting him and Ingmar Bergman as his two favourite filmmakers, stating "I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman".

PRAISED BY FESTIVALS

“The most revered postwar French director, whose rigorously beautiful tales of spiritual struggle and transcendence have exerted a tremendous influence on the last half-century of world cinema.” – TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

LOVED BY AUDIENCES

In 1999, the Cinematique Ontario initiated a complete retrospective using new prints, which was repeated at the Edinburgh Film Festival and London's National Film Theatre to capacity audiences.

A DIRECTOR THAT DIDN’T COMPROMISE

“He is the most idiosyncratic and uncompromising of all major filmmakers, in the sense that he always tried to create precisely what he wanted without surrendering to considerations of commerce, audience popularity, or people’s preconceptions of what cinema should be.” – SENSES OF CINEMA

ROBERT BRESSON ABOUT FILMMAKING

"It is with something clean and precise that you will force the attention of inattentive eyes and ears." — Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson’s 13 features over 40 years constitute arguably the most original and brilliant body of work over a long career from a film director in the history of cinema. 

He is the most idiosyncratic and uncompromising of all major filmmakers, in the sense that he always tried to create precisely what he wanted without surrendering to considerations of commerce, audience popularity, or people’s preconceptions of what cinema should be.

FACTS ABOUT ROBERT BRESSON:

Robert Bresson (1901 – 1999)

- Robert Bresson was born in a village in 1901

- He studied Greek, Latin and philosophy

- He was an accomplished pianist, playing until he "lost the nimbleness" in his fingers.

- He believed that aspiring film-makers should study music, painting and poetry - and not attend film school.

- Bresson initially started out as a painter, and he later admitted that painting taught him to make "not beautiful images, but necessary images."

- He served 18 months as a prisoner-of-war, which marked his life and his career very strongly

- "Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing." -Robert Bresson

HIS 13 FILMS (in 40 years):

- Angels of the Streets (1943)

- The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)

- Diary of a Country Priest (1951) - Venice Film Festival Golden Lion

- A Man Escaped (1956)

- Pickpocket (1959)

- The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

- Balthazar (1966)

- Mouchette (1967)

- A Gentle Woman (1969)

- Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

- Lancelot of the Lake (1974)

- The Devil Probably (1977)

- Money (1983) 

QUOTE FROM ROBERT BRESSON

“I think in the whole world things are going very badly. People are becoming more materialist and cruel … Cruel by laziness, by indifference, egotism, because they only think about themselves and not at all about what is happening around them, so they let everything grow ugly and stupid.

They are all interested in money only. Money is becoming their God. God doesn't exist for many. Money is becoming something you must live for. You know, even your astronauts, the first one who put his foot on the moon, said that when he first saw our earth, he said it was something so miraculous, so marvelous, don't spoil it, don't touch it.” - Robert Bresson