De Weg naar Bresson plot
Dutch documentary about Robert Bresson (1901-1999). This documentary was shot in 1983 in Cannes, when Bresson's last film L'Argent was screened there. Numerous directors and actors, such as Paul Schrader, who also wrote an influential book on Bresson and who is a devoted fan, Andrei Tarkovsky, Dominique Sanda, Orson Welles and Louis Malle, are questioned about Bresson, before finally speaking to the Master himself. comes. In between, images from, among others, "Lancelot du Lac", "Un condamné à mort s'est échappé" and "Le Diable probablement" clarify Bresson's aesthetics and visual language. When asked whether his films are not merely pessimistic, Bresson replies: "One should not confuse pessimism with lucidity."