Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson ( born September 25, 1901 in Bromont- Lamothe, Auvergne, France, † December 18, 1999 in Paris) was a French film director.
Life and work
Robert Bresson was born in Bromont- Lamothe, Puy -de- Dôme. He is the son of Marie- Élisabeth (née Clausels ) and Léon Bresson, an officer. He went through high school, the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux.
Bresson first turned to painting and came in the thirties the film ( " The painting taught me to make not beautiful images, but necessary. "). 1934 Bresson directed the short film comedy, Les affaires publiques, which was long considered lost and the only in the nineties, a copy has resurfaced.
After several more screenplays, among others for René Clair, turned Bresson in 1943 his first feature film as a director, Les Anges du Péché ( "Angel of Sin" ). Later Bresson described this film as the true beginning of his film work and distanced himself from his previous work. 1945 was followed by Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne from a screenplay by Jean Cocteau, who was Bresson's last film with professional actors.
His work is influenced by Jansenism.
Filmography
Writings
- Notes sur le cinématographe. Gallimard, Paris 1975. 1 German Format: sheet music for the cinematograph. Translated by Andrea Spingler. Hanser, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-446-13163-9.
- 2nd German edition: notes on cinematograph. Translated by Andrea Spingler and Robert Fischer. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-89581-173-4.