Between genres and styles in the films of Robert Bresson

CINEJ Cinema Journal

卷:5

Luíza Beatriz Alvim¹ 

[1] Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil;

关键词: Robert Bresson;    French cinema;    genres;    classical music;    Rococo painting;   

DOI  :  10.5195/cinej.2015.127

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The films of French director Robert Bresson are considered sober and transcendental. However, in A gentle woman (1969) and in Four nights of a dreamer (1972), he included extracts of quite different genres, like a libertine comedy (the extract of film Benjamim by Michel Deville, 1968), a Shakespearean tragedy (a performance of Shakespeare´s Hamlet) and a gangster film (When love possesses us, produced by Bresson himself). In a way, those excerpts represent exactly the opposite of Bresson´s cinema. On the other hand, they still have some familiarity with it. We analyze the approach of those genres in the sequences in Bresson´s films, as well of the styles present in them by the use of music and images of paintings.

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