BAMcinématek presents the first complete retrospective in over a decade of the most uncompromising and visionary of directors.
This retrospective takes place from April 13 - May 6.
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Paring the language of film down to its essential elements—minimally expressive performances by nonprofessional actors, highly detailed sound design, tableau-like compositions that sear themselves into the mind’s eye—Robert Bresson (1901—1999) searched for the soul in the modern world, revealing the divine in the unlikeliest places and exploring states of both spiritual rapture and lament. BAMcinématek presents the first complete retrospective in over a decade of the most uncompromising and visionary of directors. All films in 35mm and in French with English subtitles.
"Bresson is to French cinema what Mozart is to German music and Dostoevsky is to Russian literature.” —Jean-Luc Godard
“Every film is a must-see!” —Dave Kehr, The New York Times
“[Bresson’s] cinema technique is brilliant. Reflective of the work of Carl Dreyer, the old Danish master of the close-up and the hard, analytical camera style, it is a compound of searching realism and a tempo of movement that approaches poetry.” —The New York Times
"Filming with his usual tranquil, austere feeling for the miraculous, Bresson still manages to make most other film-makers appear hysterical over-reachers; at nearly 80, his power to renew our faith in cinema is as firm as one could wish for." —Time Out
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