Robert Bresson
French film director (1901–1999)
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FranceHe stripped cinema to its skeleton—no professional actors, no swelling scores, no excess—and the result placed seven of his films on the greatest-ever list, more than any director alive or dead.
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Robert Bresson spent five decades proving that less could mean everything. Born in 1901, he developed an ascetic method that rejected the conventions of commercial filmmaking: he cast non-professionals he called "models," cut scenes to their barest gestures, and let silence do the work of orchestras. The approach yielded A Man Escaped in 1956, Pickpocket in 1959, and Au hasard Balthazar in 1966—all ranked among the 100 greatest films ever made. His stories tilted toward tragedy, but the austerity gave them a strange, merciless beauty. Jean-Luc Godard called him the French cinema itself, the wa…
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- René Clair Award
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
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