bresson

[@MyDenis0]

" People are charming cause they are not aware of they're charm". This is so true.

[@HerbalistGuybrush]

Cause they are not charm ;)

[@mrinalkantinath1271]

17:59 Bresson points out the difference bwtween Cinema and movies. Exactly what Scorsese tried to do by saying marvel movies aren't cinema

[@frontstandard1488]

It's no wonder that Tarkovsky thought him the highest quality director of the day.

[@fulyafu9537]

This interview made my day.

[@NICKANNA92]

Thank you for interview and translation.

[@renaud-julesdeschenes9903]

Merci pour cette entrevue, un beau morceau d'anthologie... Renaud

[@inco9943]

I love french directors

[@theempire00]

He was thinking about film on a higher level

[@bernardguy1130]

Y a t-il encore un français capable d'apprécier ce cinéma d'exception et de grandeur de l'ame ????????????

[@lospopularos]

@@bernardguy1130 Il y en aura toujours. Mais très peu.

[@Kinomainak]

Bresson! 🖤

[@sarahamico1259]

Un génie.

[@pete49327]

If I understand him correctly, he will have his actors rehearse or repeat (in takes maybe) a line 50 times so that the line becomes automatic and more realistic? Anyway, he was definitely a true artist at heart and always strived to make cinema itself a purer art form.

[@bharasiva96]

He didn't call them actors. He called them "models". Actors are associated with theatre.

[@pigeonlove]

Yes, that included beating animals 50 times before the final cut

[@zbytzkotowni620]

@paul w ''we keep repeating lines, 50 times if necessary, until the mind no longer intervenes in the dialogue or gestures once things become automatic, the actor is thrown into the action of the film, and completely unexpected things happen, that are a hundred times more real than theatrical acting, where the actor has memorized his lines thinking out his every line and gesture '' i don't understand the difference. Repeating lines until they become automatic is also memorizing.

[@sophialycouris4293]

@@pigeonlove this sounds truly horrible. What a shame.... why does it have to be that there is always a dark side hidden somewhere in these otherwise mind blowing ways of thinking and working..... so sad and disturbing

[@PrinsTan]

Yes and no. He wants it to be internalised until it becomes automatic. When you brush your teeth, you don’t necessarily think about the exact actions of picking up a brush, applying toothpaste, brushing, spitting, rinsing, you just do it. Same when you drive a car. You learned these gestures, but they have now become automatic so as to not be necessarily thought through when you make them.

[@clairelenoir]

génial

[@jackiebuet5780]

un maniaque du vrai dit-il.

[@shibmitra]

Les automatismes font références à Bergson aussi

[@ergaomnes6221]

un genie, vrai!

[@arun8334]

Which one of Montaigne's essays is Bresson referring to ?

[@gabriellechantiri3434]

the chapter is called "Apology for Raymond Sebond" :)

[@jean-claudecalise7470]

Il y a TOUT dans les réponses du maître et "ils" continuent à poser des questions idiotes !

[@ellefirogeni4624]

Ce (son) film, au moins, ns donne un ane de bel âme-à part de maths en spectacle (il faut observer le montage). Mais bien en plus, qu’est-ce-qu’il ns dit là, Le cher mr rBresson.. De quoi donc parle-t-il? Car c’est bien entendue qu’il ne repond pas aux questions posées, mais au lieu se demande (de nouveau?) de ce qui lui est (peut-être) arrivé pendant le mode ‘nouvel’ de tournage. Il semble tellement sincère, non pas un encore être, dirigé par ce qu’il vient juste d’y avoir prèparer à propos. À bien noter: la distinction entre ‘flics et Cinéma’. Nota bene: the distinction between ‘movies and Cinema’.

[@NotRott009]

16:11

[@jackiebuet5780]

Be Natural disait Alice Guy Blaché: la toute première réalisatrice de fiction au mondeIIII au début du cinéma muet...Filiation??? possible??? il aurait été génial de lui poser la question...si on s'était intéressé à cette généalogie.

[@swapnambajpai2727]

Can someone recommend me more directors like him?

[@MegaPetitPatapon]

Bruno Dumont is probably one of the most "Bresson inspired" director. His second movie, "Humanité", is a true masterpiece.

[@NICKANNA92]

If you mean his technique - making performers play automatically, not professionally (and if you have not seen yet) you can check Jim Jarmusch's earlier films, like "Down by law", Hal Hartley's 90th's films. In general, you can find so called dead-pan films. They lack seriousness of Bresson: these films are comedies, but at least for me they keep "soul" of Bresson's works.

[@swapnambajpai2727]

@@NICKANNA92 Thank you for those reccomendations. What I probably referred to was the film enhancing the experience by undercutting the drama, for example the violence being observed almost in an agnostic manner in Balthazar, evoking emotion by subduing the representation.

[@quentinmackenzie4650]

In stylistic terms, Manoel de Oliveira, Yorgos Lanthimos (ignore The Favourite) and Aki Kaurismäki come to mind, although they all have their own style.

[@n.emilioaviles]

I recommend two independent American filmmakers: Jon Jost “Sure Fire” (1990) & Nina Menkes “Queen of Diamonds” (1991) Both films feel Bressonian and are quite serious in tone & appearance.

[@HerbalistGuybrush]

Bresson is to cinema what Robert Fripp is to rock music.

[@joshbaino3087]

I would say more like what The Velvet Underground was

[@HerbalistGuybrush]

@@joshbaino3087 Nah man my analogy was better. But thanks also for the contribution :)

[@joshbaino3087]

@@HerbalistGuybrush Bresson was minimalist and explored realism, Fripp was maximalist and KC had mostly fantastical lyrics

[@nazarianlena5606]

d'où est tiré cet inteerview ?

[@btebte1]

It's on the Au Hasard Balthazar blu-ray from Criterion

[@nazarianlena5606]

@@btebte1 thanks !