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Tarkovskij über Bresson
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"Without a doubt. But there are artists whose influence you couldn’t possibly define. For me Bresson stands as an ideal of simplicity."
"In welchem Genre arbeitet denn etwa Robert Bresson? Doch wohl in gar keinem. Bresson ist Bresson. Er ist ein Genre für sich." (S. 175)
"Bresson despises what the moviegoer likes best. His films are ‘cold’ and ‘dull’; they lack the vicarious excitement usually associated with the movies.” (Paul Schrader)
“Two types of film: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc.) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create.” (Bresson,1977)
"The Trial of Joan of Arc was the first Bresson film I saw. I found the film extremely touching and I understood that Bresson was the only director who knew how to captivate and surprise me."
"I consider Bresson a unique phenomenon in the world of film. Indeed, Bresson is one of the artists who has shown that cinema is an artistic discipline on the same level as the classic artistic disciplines such as poetry, literature, painting, and music."
“An image must be transformed by contact with other images, as is a color by contact with other colors. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.“ (Bresson, Notes on Cinematography)
Robert Bresson
Die Darsteller
Ton & Musik
Internationale Filmfestspiele in Cannes 1983: "Bester Regisseur"
> Bresson: L'Argent
> Tarkovskij: Nostalghia
"After the screening we met. They’ve told me that I am the only director Bresson wanted to speak to."
"I've known him for a long time. We met in Paris long ago, and since then I’ve always held a great respect for this master."
"So I liked to be, so to speak, on equal footing with him."
* 25. September 1901 in
Bromont-Lamothe
† 18. Dezember 1999 in Paris
1934: Les Affaires Publiques - Kurzfilmkomödie
1959: Pickpocket - international bekanntester Film
1983: L'Argent - letzter Film
>> insgesamt 14 Filme in knapp 50 Jahren
"A sound must never come to the help of an image, nor an image to the help a of sound." (Bresson 28)
"No music as accompaniment, support or reinforcement. No music at all.*
*Except, of course, the music played by visible instruments.
The noises must become music." (Bresson 10)
"The number of films that are patched up with music! People flood a film with music. They are preventing us from seeing that there is nothing in those images." (Bresson 71)
L'Argent
Film-Vorlage
> basiert auf Tolstojs Erzählung "Der gefälschte Coupon" (Teil 1)
> leicht variierende Charaktere und Handlungsstränge
Russische Literatur als Basis:
> Une femme douce - "A Gentle Creature"
> Quatre nuits d’un rêveur - "White Nights"
> Pickpocket - "Schuld und Sühne"
> L'Argent - "The Forged Coupon"