Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)Book Summary InformationEditor: James QuandtEdition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 1999-06-04 ISBN: 0968296912 Number of pages: 624 Publisher: Cinematheque Book Reviews of Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)Book Review: Bresson maniaMy personal hero of the aforementioned European art-movie genre -- Robert Bresson -- is the subject of a new book edited by James Quandt. Robert Bresson includes interviews with the director by fellow filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Paul Schrader and French film critics Michael Delahaye and Michel Ciment. There are also homages from directors like Martin Scorsese and Rainier Werner Fassbinder, as well as essays by Roland Barthes and Alberto Moravia. One might wonder why such famous and accomplished people took the time to write about a French filmmaker whose movies are not known to the general moviegoing public. The answer is that the late Bresson actually was one of the great figures in cinema. His austere directing style relied on slow and beautiful imagery and much suffering on the part of his main characters, resulting in films that, once experienced, is never forgotten. One can describe Quandt's book the same way
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