Bresson
Britishnoun
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It’s a wonderfully understated method to refresh audience interest in such figures as Claude Chabrol, Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Like Bresson, Jackson uses hands to remind us that our identities consist of more than faces and names, that a touch or a gesture can be equally expressive of who we are.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023
They meet and go to the movies — the cinema’s lobby prominently features a poster for a film by Robert Bresson, a Kaurismaki touchstone — then endure chance accidents and bad decisions.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
The English director Rose Glass, making her debut feature, serves up a gory brew of body horror and spiritual cinema in the tradition of Robert Bresson.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2020
The Prince of Eckmuhl, being questioned, said, that an English dealer had forty thousand muskets to sell; and he had commissioned M. Bresson, to go and examine them, and treat for their purchase.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
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