| 词条 | Robert Bresson |
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| name = Robert Bresson | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|9|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = Bromont-Lamothe, France | death_date = {{Death date and age |df=yes|1999|12|18|1901|9|25}} | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Film director, screenwriter | years_active = 1933–1983 | spouse = Leidia van der Zee (m.1926) Marie-Madeleine van der Mersch }} Robert Bresson ({{IPA-fr|ʁɔbɛʁ bʁɛsɔ̃|lang}}; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999)[1] was a French film director. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film. Bresson is among the most highly regarded filmmakers of all time.[2][3] His works A Man Escaped (1956)[4], Pickpocket (1959)[5] and Au hasard Balthazar (1966)[6] were ranked among the 100 greatest films ever made in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll. Other films of his, such as Mouchette (1967) and L'Argent (1983), also received many votes.[7] Jean-Luc Godard once wrote, "He is the French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music."[8] Life and careerBresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth (née Clausels) and Léon Bresson.[9] Little is known of his early life. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and turned to painting after graduating.[10] Three formative influences in his early life seem to have a mark on his films: Catholicism, art and his experiences as a prisoner of war. Robert Bresson lived in Paris, France, in the Île Saint-Louis. Initially also a photographer, Bresson made his first short film, Les affaires publiques (Public Affairs) in 1934. During World War II, he spent over a year in a prisoner-of-war camp−an experience which informs Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped). In a career that spanned fifty years, Bresson made only 13 feature-length films. This reflects his meticulous approach to the filmmaking process and his non-commercial preoccupations.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} Difficulty finding funding for his projects was also a factor. Although many writers claim that Bresson described himself as an "Christian atheist",[11][12] no source ever confirmed this assertion, neither are the circumstances clear under which Bresson would have said it. On the contrary, in an interview in 1973 he said, {{quote|There is the feeling that God is everywhere, and the more I live, the more I see that in nature, in the country. When I see a tree, I see that God exists. I try to catch and to convey the idea that we have a soul and that the soul is in contact with God. That's the first thing I want to get in my films.[13]}}Bresson was sometimes accused of an "ivory tower existence".[14] Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, an admirer of Bresson's work, argued that the filmmaker was "a mysterious, aloof figure", and wrote that on the set of Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971) the director "seemed more isolated from his crew than any other filmmaker I've seen at work; his widow and onetime assistant director, Mylene van der Mersch, often conveyed his instructions."[15] Themes{{Refimprove section|date=March 2009}}Bresson's early artistic focus was to separate the language of cinema from that of the theater, which often relies heavily upon the actor's performance to drive the work. With his 'actor-model' technique, Bresson's actors were required to repeat multiple takes of each scene until all semblances of 'performance' were stripped away, leaving a stark effect that registers as both subtle and raw. This, as well as Bresson's restraint in musical scoring, would have a significant influence on minimalist cinema. In the academic journal CrossCurrents, Shmuel Ben-gad writes:[16] There is a credibility in Bresson's models: They are like people we meet in life, more or less opaque creatures who speak, move, and gesture [...] Acting, on the other hand, no matter how naturalistic, actively deforms or invents by putting an overlay or filter over the person, presenting a simplification of a human being and not allowing the camera to capture the actor's human depths. Thus what Bresson sees as the essence of filmic art, the achievement of the creative transformation involved in all art through the interplay of images of real things, is destroyed by the artifice of acting. For Bresson, then, acting is, like mood music and expressive camera work, just one more way of deforming reality or inventing that has to be avoided. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Bresson's directorial style resulted in films "of great passion: Because the actors didn't act out the emotions, the audience could internalize them."[17] Some feel that Bresson's Catholic upbringing and belief system lie behind the thematic structures of most of his films.[18] Recurring themes under this interpretation include salvation, redemption, defining and revealing the human soul, and metaphysical transcendence of a limiting and materialistic world. An example is A Man Escaped (1956), where a seemingly simple plot of a prisoner of war's escape can be read as a metaphor for the mysterious process of salvation. Bresson's films can also be understood as critiques of French society and the wider world, with each revealing the director's sympathetic, if unsentimental, view of its victims. That the main characters of Bresson's most contemporary films, The Devil, Probably (1977) and L'Argent (1983), reach similarly unsettling conclusions about life indicates to some the director's feelings towards the culpability of modern society in the dissolution of individuals. Indeed, of an earlier protagonist he said, "Mouchette offers evidence of misery and cruelty. She is found everywhere: wars, concentration camps, tortures, assassinations."[19] Bresson published Notes sur le cinématographe (also published in English translation as Notes on the Cinematographer) in 1975, in which he argues for a unique sense of the term "cinematography". For him, cinematography is the higher function of cinema. While a movie is in essence "only" filmed theatre, cinematography is an attempt to create a new language of moving images and sounds. LegacyWorldwideBresson is often referred to as a patron saint of cinema, not only for the strong Catholic themes found throughout his oeuvre, but also for his notable contributions to the art of film. His style can be detected through his use of sound, associating selected sounds with images or characters; paring dramatic form to its essentials by the spare use of music; and through his infamous 'actor-model' methods of directing his almost exclusively non-professional actors. He has influenced a number of other filmmakers, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Jim Jarmusch, the Dardenne brothers, Aki Kaurismäki, and Paul Schrader, whose book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer includes a detailed critical analysis. Andrei Tarkovsky[20] held Bresson in very high regard, noting him and Ingmar Bergman as his two favourite filmmakers, stating "I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman".[21] In his book Sculpting in Time, Tarkovsky describes Bresson as "perhaps the only artist in cinema, who achieved the perfect fusion of the finished work with a concept theoretically formulated beforehand."[22] Bresson's book Notes on the Cinematographer (1975) is one of the most respected books on film theory and criticism. His theories about film greatly influenced other filmmakers, such as the French New Wave directors. French Cinema and French New WaveOpposing the established pre-war French Cinema (Tradition de la Qualité) by offering his own personal responses to the question 'what is cinema?',[23] and by well-formulating his ascetic style, Bresson gained a high position among Founders of the French New Wave. He is often listed (along with Alexandre Astruc and André Bazin) as one of the main figures who theoretically influenced the French New Wave. New Wave pioneers often praised Bresson and posited him as a prototype for or precursor to the movement. However, Bresson was neither as overtly experimental nor as outwardly political as the New Wave filmmakers, and his religious views (Catholicism and Jansenism) would not have been attractive to most of the filmmakers associated with the movement.[23] In his development of auteur theory, François Truffaut lists Bresson among the few directors to whom the term "auteur" can genuinely be applied, and later names him as one of the only examples of directors who could approach even the so-called "unfilmable" scenes, using the film narrative at its disposal.[24] Jean-Luc Godard also looked back at Bresson with high admiration ("Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is the German music."[22]) Screenwriter and director Alain Cavalier describes Bresson's role as pivotal not only in the New Wave movement, but for French cinema in general, writing, "In French cinema you have a father and a mother: the father is Bresson and the mother is Renoir, with Bresson representing the strictness of the law and Renoir warmth and generosity. All the better French cinema has and will have to connect to Bresson in some way."[2] Awards and nominationsRobert Bresson was given the Career Golden Lion in 1989 by the Venice Film Festival
FilmographyFeature films
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=bresson&nom_acteur=BRESSON%20Robert&ident=7216&debut=0&record=0&from=ok|title=Robert Bresson|date= 28 July 2004|website=Les Gens du Cinéma|accessdate=19 February 2014|language=fr}} This site uses Bresson's birth certificate as its source of information. 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49407|title=BFI - Sight & Sound - Robert Bresson: Alias Grace|first=The British Film|last=Institute|website=old.bfi.org.uk|accessdate=9 August 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top250directors.htm |title=The 1,000 Greatest Films (Top 250 Directors) |publisher=They Shoot Pictures, Don't They |accessdate=June 25, 2016}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a7da289/sightandsoundpoll2012 |title=Votes for A Man Escaped (1956) |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=January 27, 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/critics |title=Critics' Top 100 |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=January 23, 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a44b82c/sightandsoundpoll2012 |title=Votes for Au hasard Balthazar (1966) |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=January 27, 2017}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba12d2612 |title=Robert Bresson |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=January 27, 2017}} 8. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com.tw/books?id=CWgcAQAAIAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions|title=Godard on Godard; critical writings|last=Godard|first=Jean-Luc|date=1972-06-27|publisher=Viking Press|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=47|language=en|trans-title=This comment on Bresson was taken from a special issue of Cahiers du Cinéma}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/19/Robert-Bresson.html|title=Robert Bresson Biography (1907-1999)|website=www.filmreference.com|accessdate=9 August 2018}} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bresson.htm |title=Robert Bresson |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=Kuusankoski Public Library |location=Finland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027174733/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bresson.htm |archivedate=27 October 2007 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }} 11. ^{{cite book|title=Robert Bresson|year=1998|publisher=Cinemathèque Ontario|isbn=978-0-9682969-1-2|authors=James Quandt, Cinémathèque Ontario|page=411|quote=Around the time of 'Lancelot du Lac' (1974), Bresson was said to have declared himself "a Christian atheist."}} 12. ^{{cite book|title=The Films of Robert Bresson: A Casebook|year=2009|publisher=Anthem Press|isbn=978-1-84331-796-8|author=Bert Cardullo|page=xiii|quote=A deeply devout man—one who paradoxically described himself as a "Christian atheist" — Bresson, in his attempt in a relatively timeless manner to address good and evil, redemption, the power of love and self-sacrifice, and other such subjects, may seem to us, and perhaps was, something of a retrogression.}} 13. ^{{cite journal|last1=Hayman|first1=Ronald|title=Robert Bresson in Conversation|journal=Transatlantic Review|date=Summer 1973|issue=46-47|pages=16-23}} 14. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/dec/22/news.obituaries|title=Robert Bresson|newspaper=The Guardian|date=December 22, 1999|accessdate=August 10, 2017}} 15. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/defending-bresson/Content?oid=915048|title=Defending Bresson|last=Rosenbaum|first=Jonathan|newspaper=Chicago Reader|date=April 1, 2004|accessdate=March 2, 2017}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.crosscurrents.org/bresson.htm |title=To See the World Profoundly: The Films of Robert Bresson |last=Ben-gad |first=Shmuel |publisher=CrossCurrents |date=1997 |accessdate=September 25, 2015}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/robert-bresson-was-master-of-understatement |title=Robert Bresson was master of understatement |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=December 23, 1999 |accessdate=September 25, 2015}} 18. ^James Quandt, Robert Bresson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998), 9. 19. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=J-7pi8X3kOgC&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=%22Mouchette+offers+evidence+of+misery+and+cruelty.+She+is+found+everywhere:+wars,+concentration+camps,+tortures,+assassinations.%22&source=bl&ots=JetGvPJ1d-&sig=SIqsMosY5tKLiufFJSOf_8lL19o&hl=en&ei=50V0S9ntDt3NjAenmK2zCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Mouchette%20offers%20evidence%20of%20misery%20and%20cruelty.%20She%20is%20found%20everywhere%3A%20wars%2C%20concentration%20camps%2C%20tortures%2C%20assassinations.%22&f=false Dictionary of Films:] {{ISBN|0-520-02152-5}}, page 228. 20. ^{{cite web|last=Le Cain|first=Maximillian|title=Andrei Tarkovsky|url=http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/tarkovsky.html|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323020120/http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/tarkovsky.html|archivedate=23 March 2010|df=dmy-all}} 21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16014.Andrei_Tarkovsky|title=Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes (Author of Sculpting in Time)|website=www.goodreads.com|accessdate=9 August 2018}} 22. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.theyshootpictures.com/bressonrobert.htm|title=TSPDT - Robert Bresson|website=www.theyshootpictures.com|accessdate=9 August 2018}} 23. ^1 24. ^{{cite web|url=http://auteur.askdefine.com/|title=Define auteur - Dictionary and Thesaurus|website=auteur.askdefine.com|accessdate=9 August 2018}} 25. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/awards |title=IMDB.com: Awards for Pickpocket |accessdate=17 January 2010 |work=imdb.com}} 26. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067641/awards |title=IMDB.com: Awards for Four Nights of a Dreamer |accessdate=14 March 2010 |work=imdb.com}} 27. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1977/03_preistr_ger_1977/03_Preistraeger_1977.html |title=Berlinale 1977: Prize Winners |accessdate=25 July 2010 |work=berlinale.de}} External linksInformational
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