Connecting faith and film: film director Robert Bresson's spare, reflective movies reveal moments of grace in human life.(Profile)(Biography)

National Catholic Reporter | November 14, 2003| | Copyright

French film director Robert Bresson had no interest in producing pious entertainments or filmed apologetics. If he were alive to hear of it, Bresson would probably reject the title of "Catholic director" as firmly as Francois Mauriac refused that of "Catholic novelist." Nevertheless, Bresson was probably the most distinguished Catholic director in film history, with the "spiritual" in Bresson a matter of style rather than subject matter.

The distinguished French critic Andre Bazin on seeing Bresson's masterly adaptation of Georges Bernanos' Diary of a Country ...

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