The Weasel Man, 88-90 AD
19Aug11
I like that. Devastating. I sat in the dark for a few minutes afterward. Flawed but maybe my favorite.
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Francisco R.
28Oct11
I may need to rewatch it because I couldn't quite put my finger in the minor conflicts between the characters here, but thanks to the assured hand in the direction the message is convincing and makes the film ultimately worth watching.
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richmondhill
16Jul11
Intellectually engaging? Occasionally. Ponderously exacting? Frequently. Aesthetically ascetic? Almost entirely.
Z. Bart
28Feb11
A wonderfully intriguing premise, engagingly shot (Bresson's hawkeyed attention to detail is, as always, unerring). However, the protagonist remains something of a cipher throughout; his future (or lack therof) is telegraphed in the opening minutes of the film, and his past is spectacularly unrealized. I liked the film--which I'd waited a long time to see--but, immediately afterwards, I needed to watch "The Conformist."
actingoutpolitics
29Oct10
Robert Bresson’s “Au Hazard Balthazar” and “Devil Probably” are films where plot and meaning are highly stylized by the director’s unique manner of uniting/fusing his intellectual and aesthetic maneuvers into one alive cinematic organism. The donkey “Balthazar” in “Au Hazard” symbolizes not only the human body but the human soul, while the bodies of the young people in “Devil” symbolize the very intelligence of nature as a pantheistically spiritual creation. In the two films (separated by the period of eleven years), Bresson compares the ignorantly indifferent and the passively cruel position of a modern society (obsessed with wealth and glamour and occupied with philistinism of “success” and competition) towards children and youth. With grace of a seeker for truth and with a sarcasm of moral frustration, Bresson depicts how today’s system of values becomes more and more anti-spiritual, and for this reason more and more anti-human. Moral radicalism of both films addresses the heart of the viewers with an insistency and intensity of a prophet’s demand, and it could be unbearable to receive, if not visual harmony and the rhythmic beauty of Bresson’s narrations. These films – two chapters in the history of Western sensibility, is a scandalous verdict on the behavioral anti-Christianity of the so called Christian societies. Please, visit: www.actingoutpolitics.com to read an essay about Bresson’s two films: “Balthazar, Marie, Charles, Alberte, Edvige, Valentine (To be Victimized Against our Will as an ‘Existential’ Law” [posted on Sept. 27, 2010]), with analysis of shots from the films, and also articles dedicated to the films by Godard, Bergman, Bunuel, Kurosawa, Resnais, Pasolini, Fassbinder, Antonioni, Bertolucci, Alain Tanner and Liliana Cavani. By Victor Enyutin
Commie Bee
23Aug10
Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Nonetheless the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity. ~ Dialectic of Enlightenment , Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
All Is Grace
1Aug10
A very depressing film from Bresson which deals with a generation that feels desperate in face of modern destructive world, and turns to mindless sex, drugs and emptiness. You can call this film an attack of Bresson on the new generation of hypocrisy, where people are lost and powerless and end up committing suicide. What makes this film worthy of watching? Bresson's directing, probably.
sandwiches
3May10
In light of the recent oil spill in the gulf, I have not been able to stop thinking of this film.
javier quintero
15Oct09
Essential film for these times Bresson on environmental damage globalization youth loss of faith
Hideous Bitch Princess
13Oct09
I'm not a huge Bresson fan so I guess it makes sense as to why I found this to be his best movie... well, maybe second to A Man Escaped... either way it was better than that silly movie about a Donkey.
Carlo Beer
27Mar09
OK, I am reading a book on Bresson and I really need to see this film. Does anyone know where I can find it on DVD? I live in Los Angeles, CA. Thank you very much!