Robert Bresson

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Robert Bresson (born September 25, 1901 in Bromont-Lamothe , Auvergne , France , † December 18, 1999 in Paris ) was a French film director who was best known for his minimalist films and was one of the most respected and outstanding French filmmakers, although he made only thirteen feature films in his long career.

Live and act

Robert Bresson was born in Bromont-Lamothe , Puy-de-Dôme department . He was the son of Marie-Élisabeth (nee Clausels) and Léon Bresson, an officer. Until he graduated from high school, he attended the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux .

Bresson first turned to painting and came to film in the 1930s (“Painting taught me not to create beautiful pictures, but necessary ones”). In 1933 he was involved in the coproduction Once Upon a Musician ; he wrote the French texts. In 1934 Bresson directed the comedy, Les Affaires publiques , which was long thought to be lost and of which a copy did not reappear until the 1990s. This comedy was "mistreated" and cut against his will.

After a few more scripts (working for Les jumeaux de Brighton in 1936 and Courrier Sud in 1937 , including a two-day work for René Clair ), Bresson made his first feature-length film as a director in 1943, Les Anges du Péché ("Angel of Sin"). Bresson later referred to this film as the real beginning of his film work and distanced himself from his previous work. The ladies of the Bois de Boulogne followed in 1945, based on a script by Jean Cocteau , which was Bresson's last film with professional actors. As he made the shift towards casting unskilled models rather than actors in his films, it became difficult for him to find financiers for the films he intended. A planned film about the Jesuit Ignatius von Loyola and a film about the creation story ( Genesis ) could not be realized for this reason.

Many critics (since Bazin) claim that Bresson's work was influenced by Jansenism .

Filmography

Awards

Fonts

  • Notes on the cinematography . Gallimard, Paris 1975.
    • 1st German edition: Notes on the cinematograph . Translated by Andrea Spingler. Hanser, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-446-13163-9 .
    • 2nd German edition: Notes on the cinematograph . Translated by Andrea Spingler and Robert Fischer . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-89581-173-4 .

literature

  • Frieda Grafe: Ascetic excesses - Robert Bresson and his films . First published in: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 22./23. February 1975. In: In close-up - authors' policy and beyond (= selected writings in individual volumes, 7th volume). Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-922660-90-8 . Pp. 40-46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Bresson The Complete Works at filmmuseum.at, accessed on April 25, 2017.
  2. ^ Retrospective Robert Bressons: Das Gesamtwerk In: Trend.at, March 18, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Robert Bresson . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/2000 from April 24, 2000 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  4. ↑ Robert Bresson - Film References (English)
  5. ↑ Robert Bresson - Biography (English)
  6. ^ Robert Bresson, Mylène Bresson: Les Affaires publiques In: Bresson par Bresson . Entretiens (1943–2013) rassemblés par Mylène Bresson, Paris, Flammarion, 2013, ISBN 978-2-0812-9858-3
  7. ↑ Peter W. Jansen: On the hundredth birthday of Robert Bresson: An inexorable moralist
    In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 25, 2001. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bresson, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromont-Lamothe , Auvergne, France
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1999
Place of death Paris , France