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Director, Screenwriter, Actor Born: September 25, 1901 in Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, France Death: December 18, 1999 in Paris, France Biography:Often described as a "painter" of films, French director "Robert Bresson" was one of cinema's greatest anomalies. He directed only 13 films over the course of 40 years, but these films were in a category all their own, minimalist works that tended towards radical (and sometimes controversial) reinterpretations of such classical sources as Diderot, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy. An expert manipulator of narrative incident, Bresson focused on seemingly incidental details of the stories he told and used amateur actors (whom he called 'models') lacking any trace of theatricality, creating searching meditations on the quality of transcendence, spirituality, and alienation. Of the artistic influences inherent in his work -- perhaps most apparent in his belief that the cinema is a fusion of music and painting, not the theatre and photography -- Bresson once said "Art is not a luxury, but a vital necessity."... Full Biography
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