Robert Bresson: “A sigh, a silence, a word, a sentence, a din, a hand, the whole of your model, his face, in repose, in movement, in profile, full face, an immense view, a restricted space…Each thing exactly in its place: your only resources.”
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All artists have unique paths. Bresson, Tarkovsky, and Melville are three examples of artists who inspire us not only with their masterful filmmaking and timeless films but also with how they began their careers as filmmakers. It does not matter at what age you start. It does not matter from where you start. The pursuit of your dreams and passions is a never-ending quest. The right time to start is always now.
The meeting of filmmaking geniuses, Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson, at Cannes 1983, receiving the Grand Prix du cinéma de creation award (Best Director) for Nostalghiaand L'Argent. Both filmmakers created a collection of masterfully realized films, wrote the classics of film literature Sculpting in TimeandNotes on Cinematography, and shared with the world their passion for shedding light on cinema as a unique art form with its own language and manner of engaging and creating experiences for audiences.
Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson stand among the great masters of the film world. To immerse oneself in their films is to dive into the depths of what cinema promises and offers as an art form. Likewise, their ideas on film and filmmaking are as profound. Tarkovsky’s Sculpting in Time and Bresson’s Notes on Cinematography are indispensable to the art of cinema. J.M.G. Le Clézio’s words on Robert Bresson apply with equal force to Andrei Tarkovsky as it is true to envision both filmmakers “shining like stars, showing us the simple and difficult path toward perfection.” Read, learn, and absorb these classics of film literature from Bresson and Tarkovsky.
Welcome@poetsofcinema to the IG world, an account dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson, poets of cinema who strived to show cinema to be an art all to itself.
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.” - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
• Anne Wiazemsky in Au Hasard Balthazar, Robert Bresson
