![]() ![]() ![]() That would come with his next film, 1956's A Man Escaped, a prison break movie made with at such a level of austerity that we never see the prison. Diary of a Country Priest (adapted from a celebrated novel by Georges Bernanos) straddles the lines between these two phases of his career: it has all the trappings of a mature Bresson film without the severity. After this point, he made a kind of movie that basically nobody else was making in France or the the rest of the world, and nobody ever has since: unrelentingly spare dramas that go beyond minimalism into such a purified register that it feels almost like watching the essence of a movie rather than the movie itself. Prior to this point, he made the kind of films people were making in France in the '40s: solemn melodramas for respectable middle class audiences who preferred some level of artistry in their movies. Diary of a Country Priest, from 1951, was the third feature film directed by French director Robert Bresson, and it is the hinge on which his entire career pivots. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |