Bresson, Ranked

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Bresson’s style of accentuating minimalist details — closing up and slowing down on body parts or material items — repletes his films with a transcendental slowing down of one’s perception of time. This sensibility bestows his films with a “certain lightness” (Andrei Tarkovsky), a certain gracefulness, and a sense of humility. Bresson’s films, particularly the masterpieces — Diary of A Country Priest, Au Hasard Balthazar, A...