On Robert Bresson and Au Hasard Balthazar - Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, and more

[@CatTang-cz3zv]

My fave quote from this video: "I am a film addict,absolutely crazy about cinema." Ahhh it always struck me so well. Merci Godard!

[@juangalobiset925]

There's nothing special about that quote... You are cheering it only because Godard said it.

[@lospopularos]

@@juangalobiset925 What makes it special is the unconvincing tone with which he said it lol...

[@mischabarattolo7598]

What's so special about that quote lmao

[@LorFire]

Shame his films never reflected that lool

[@96CAMJ]

@@LorFire What? You can't be serious. There is a lot of cinephile references in early Godard's movies and he likes cinema so much that he never did the same thing over and over. Always pushing forwad what defines cinema.

[@2Majesties]

Seeing 'Au Hasard Balthasar' was a sublime experience, indeed.

[@Boudosaved]

Easily one of the greatest films of all time by one of the world's greatest artists. I have never cared so much for an animal as I do for Balthazar. If a person only saw this film, that person would learn the majority of what you would need to know about human behavior, the good and the bad.

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

along with Mouchette, and 5-6 of his other films, Bresson's work is at the pinacle of art, all art.

[@michaelsmith4109]

It is a sublime film. For me it was akin to the way a painter often times draws the skeleton onto a canvans then adds paint. Bresson seems to do the same. He gives us a framework on which the viewer can project his own experinece and inner journey upon. The film does not manipulate the viewers emotions through the use of heavy handed acting and dialogue. This creates the possiblity for each observer to have their own unique experience and relationship with the film as it leads us to our own inner worlds and doesn't attempt to define them for us.

[@ethidian3444]

Michael Smith respectfully, I think many, many films do the things you and others suggest Bressons films do, and in my view they do it better-through expressive characters.

[@ethidian3444]

paul w no, I didn’t prove that point.

[@michaszeremeta4745]

Ms. Marguerite Duras hit the point. Bresson was giant of cinema. Godard is grand emperor.

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

Such a show on TV you could never have in USA, the closest might have been David Susskind in the 50's but still, not with this intellectual weight...What so many of my fellow Americans dislike about "the French" is exactly what I do like about them.

[@cinemass916]

In Bresson's pure cinema "Thought" happens! what Maurice Blanchot called "la Pensee du Dehore" "the Thought of the Outside" in the words of Deleuze what can "...testifies to the twisting line of the outside spoken by Melville, without beginning or end, an oceanic line that passes through all point of resistance, pitches diagrams against one another, and operates always as the most recent."

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

you said it.

[@RekzaFS]

u wot m8

[@josepamplonamunoz8945]

LA POLITIQUE DES AUTEURS Entretiens avec plusieurs auteurs Pag. 306-307 Entretien avec Robert Bresson Delahaye- J’en reviens au jansénisme. Ne croyez-vous pas qu’en dehors de la question de dépouillement, il y a un accord profond entre votre vision et la vision janséniste du monde, par exemple, et précisément: sur le Mal? Chez vous, le monde semble condamné… Godard- Et, justement, Pascal est un Inquisiteur, et, pour moi, s’il y a un film qui est pascalien, c’est bien Balthazar. Bresson- Vous savez: Pascal est tellement grand pour moi, mais il est grand pour tout le monde… Mais, dans le jansénisme, il y a peut-être ceci, qui est aussi une impression que j’ai: c’est que notre vie est faite à la fois de prédestination- jansénisme, donc- et de hasard. Donc, le hasard (nous retrouvons le hasard-Balthazar), c’est peut-être bien ça (et là je m’en rends compte) qui a été le point de départ du film. Très exactement: le point de départ du film a été une visión foudroyante d’un film dont l’âne serait le personnage central.” Ramsay Poche Cinéma Éditions Champ Libre, Paris, 1972

[@enricopiffer6914]

Does anyone know, where this interviews were originally broadcast and which year? (I assume it was 1966, but you can never be sure...)

[@PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

C'est un film magnifique, un peu comme le vin, il s'améliore avec l'âge.

[@mrstanleyktop1014]

Robert Bresson and I believe in my opinion the first director to have had the courage to play amateur actors in movies

[@mrstanleyktop1014]

@Steve Blundell thank you

[@burntoats]

I have the feeling De Sica and Rosselini did it first, but might be wrong

[@mrstanleyktop1014]

@Steve Blundell Well I'm well informed there is a lot of film bresson or there is almost that amateur actors see that as for example Mouchette a good film very Bressonian that speaks of a young teenage girl evil in his skin and whose do not know his real name

[@mrstanleyktop1014]

@@burntoats maybe I'll find out ;)

[@mrstanleyktop1014]

@@burntoats as much for me you're right it's De Sica and rosselini who started to play amateur actors, robert bresson to begin to play fans towards the middle and late 60s

[@mikearom2520]

💙

[@mateoferrari8809]

Only 3 people in the video : Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Marguerite Duras Title : Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, and more - Institutions of patriarchal capital will never cease to attempt to capture and erase what they cannot tame. - Duras is life. Duras is love.

[@jaelreyes6333]

I better stop now before I fall into the KZbin rabbit hole.... said no one ever, thanks KZbin

[@ishmyl99]

Godard... the only one in this video who knows what the hell he's talking about. Malles was a second-rate director, with even less than second-rate thoughts. Duras is only slightly better, but can't touch Godard.

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

2nd rate is a bit harsh, he made at least 6 very good films, by my count, better than your average USA director, but I do agree, Goddard, Rohmer, Truffaut, and Bresson are light years ahead...Malles is much more conventional.

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

Duras's comments were pretty good, besides, she wrote Hiroshima Mon Amour which will always make respect her.

[@whathefuzizthiz]

i thought the movie was shit tbh

[@yuric4311]

yes it is

[@cravis123]

It means that you don't really feel the profound art element in cinema, especially in Robert Bresson's films. This film is a masterpiece! Just incredible!

[@cravis123]

@@yuric4311 With all due respect regarding your opinion I believe you are wrong in this case...No, it's not a "shit" film. It is artistic and really profound!

[@corailgris]

Have you ever considered that the shit might be in your gaze?

[@cravis123]

@@corailgris I always take this in consideration…but this movie is a masterpiece, I have terms of comparison because I've seen a lot of movies and plus I'm from the field of visual art, not an amateur, but I don't want to brag ... today people seem to be stupid, everything is subjective, a cheap argument to say that…sincerely, technology has evolved, but today's directors are more uninspired than ever. Cheers!

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

i hate this film! unlike his other movies which i love.

[@brltjean6060]

Ahah, ils sont tellement ridicules

[@CL-hc7qg]

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