Direction: Robert Bresson

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast François Leterrier · Roland Monod · Charles Le Clainche · Maurice Beerblock

Synopsis April 1943, during WWII. Fontaine, a 27 years old young man who is a member of the French Resistance fighting against the nazis, is arrested by the Gestapo in order to be interrogated. Fontaine suspects that he will be executed,...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Nadine Nortier · Jean-Claude Guilbert · Jean Vimenet · Marie Cardinal

Synopsis Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette does not manage to express her rebellion against the humiliations she undergoes. One night,...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Anne Wiazemsky · Walter Green · François Lefarge · Pierre Klossowski

Synopsis Au Hasard Balthazar presents an unfettered view of human cruelty, suffering and injustice, filtered through the eyes of a donkey over the course of his long life. The burro at the film's center begins life peacefully and happily, as the...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Martin Lasalle · Marika Green · Jean Pelegri · Dolly Scal

Synopsis Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Claude Laydu · Marie-Monique Arkell · André Guibert · Jean Riveyre

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Florence Delay · Jean-Claude Fourneau · Marc Jacquier · Roger Honorat

Synopsis Captured for her part in leading French troops to war against the English and her support of Charles VII, Joan faces trial under the direction and influence of the English judicial system, which demands that an example is made of...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Isabelle Weingarten · Guillaume des Forêts · Jean-Maurice Monnoyer · Giorgio Maulini

Synopsis The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night. Gradually, he discovers that her lover...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Christian Patey · Sylvie van den Elsen · Beatrice Tabourin · Vincent Risterucci

Synopsis A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Dominique Sanda · Guy Frangin · Jeanne Lobre · Jacques Kébadian

Synopsis A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Antoine Monnier · Nicolas Deguy · Tina Irissari · Henri de Maublanc

Synopsis Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion but ultimately finds nothing which will change the overwhelming bleakness he feels surrounded by. In this austere movie by director Robert Bresson, the...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Renée Faure · Jany Holt · Sylvie · Marie-Hélène Dasté

Synopsis Rich young Anne-Marie thinks she has found her vocation when she joins a Dominican convent as a novice. The convent specialises in rehabilitating female prisoners, and Anne-Marie becomes especially fascinated with Therese, trying to get her to join the convent...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Paul Bernard · María Casares · Elina Labourdette · Lucienne Bogaert

Synopsis A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Luc Simon · Laura Duke Condominas · Humbert Balsan · Patrick Bernard

Synopsis A million miles away from 'Camelot' or 'Excalibur', this film ruthlessly strips the Arthurian legend down to its barest essentials. Arthur's knights, far from being heroic, are conniving and greedy men who, just before the film starts, have failed miserably...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Andrée Servilanges · Beby · Marcel Dalio · Franck Maurice