Word: bressonã
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...world of film, prevented by his strict Calvinist background from seeing a movie until the age of eighteen. He made up for lost time by watching an average of three movies a day while studying at UCLA and earning his MA in Film Studies. While viewing Robert Bresson??s “Pickpocket,” though, Schrader became inspired by the film’s careful investigation of society, and his work veered from film criticism into screenwriting.“I got into writing for the best of all reasons: self-therapy,” Schrader...
French director Robert Bresson??s 1966 classic is re-released to a public desperately in need of cinema that one imdb commentator terms “Intolerably Beautiful.” The film follows the journey of Balthazar, a donkey, from his happy early life, through his sojurn as a downtrodden beast of burden to his happy end-of-life working for a miller who thinks he is a reincarnated Saint. His journey parallels that of the lovely young girl who originally named Balthazar as she grows out of her beautific childhood into a terrible relationship where...
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