num_pages: 407
description: Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. Robert A Passion for Film is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films their literary sources and psycho-biographical aspects of the work. Concentrating on the films' cinematographic imagistic narrative and thematic structures Pipolo provides a nuanced analysis of each film-including nearly 100 illustrations-elucidating Bresson's unique style as it evolved from the impassioned Les Anges du pche to such disconsolate meditations on the world as The Devil Probably and L'Argent. Special attention is also given to psychosexual aspects of the films that are usually neglected. Bresson has long needed a thoroughgoingtreatment by a critic worthy to the he gets it here. From it emerges a provocative portrait of an extraordinary artist whose moral engagement and devotion to the craft of filmmaking are without equal.
language: English
title: Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film
publisher: Oxford University Press