Born in 1901 and died in 1999, Bresson developed a spare, spiritual style that used non-professional actors, which he called models, and avoided overt emotional effects. His films are quiet but intense studies of faith, grace and imprisonment.
Filmography
- Les Anges du péché (1943)
- Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- Pickpocket (1959)
- The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Mouchette (1967)
- A Gentle Woman (1969)
- Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
- Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
- The Devil, Probably (1977)
- L'Argent (1983)