Love is a complicated, nebulous thing in Bresson’s minimalist, if surprisingly sensual, adaptation of Dostoevsky’s ‘White Nights’, about two wounded, disillusioned souls that can’t seem to operate beyond their present malaise.
Bresson’s acrid final feature may be seen as a ‘counter-feit/fict-ion’, exploring the transactionality of exploitation through an anti-narrative, as a fake bill sparks an irreversible chain of events.
Indescribably a unique, moving experience in this simple yet unconventional tale from one of cinema’s masters of masters.
Bresson’s work throws genre and filmmaking conventions out of the window, but thoroughly elevates our soul by the end of this masterful exercise.
One of the greatest ‘prison escape’ films of all-time, masterfully constructed through the sharp and precise cinematic techniques of the incomparable Bresson.
One of the world cinema’s most ‘interiorised’ films about religious faith as Bresson centers on the thoughts of a suffering priest who is received coldly in the new village he has been posted to.
Bresson’s ‘Joan of Arc’ film is as spare and minimalist as you can imagine, distilling with startling clarity the moral essence of one of history’s most infamous trials.
Eternality Tan 