If you're looking for "expression' in Bresson via the
faces of his models then you have the wrong filmmaker.
With Boresson it's the ENTIRE BODY not the face that's
used as an expresive resource. And I couldn't disagree
more about Breson's poetics. The sequence in which the
title is evoked in "Le Diable Probablement" is created
from the purest audio-visual poetry imaginable.

--- Paul <forlino@...> wrote:

> Yes, I do understand what you mean, absolutely, and
> it's a point well
> taken, although a director (any artist) can go to an
> extreme, which
> is what I feel Bresson started to do more and more
> and his films also
> began to show less of a "poetic" feel in his imagery
> and his editing
> became more deliberately and consciously abrupt. I
> could at least
> discern some sadness in Mouchette's expression at
> times, and both
> sadness and anguish in Claude Laydu's face in
> "Diary", even though
> neither of them was "acting" in a very emotional
> manner. ..That
> interview you mentioned is - I THINK -- the one that
> I've seen before
> (indicates 1960) where the first shot is that of
> three empty chairs.
> It's a rather strange interview --- whether it was
> produced purposely
> with mock, 'tongue-in-cheek' seriousness or not, I
> don't know -- but
> I'm wondering if it might have been a sort of gentle
> parody (just for
> fun, and yet still with great admiration) of
> Bresson's own unique,
> seemingly cold, unemotional(!) directorial style,
> while still at the
> same time being a series of serious questions for
> him. Or maybe I'm
> just imagining things.
>
> Paul
>
>
> --- In bresson-no-spam@yahoogroups.com, David
> Ehrenstein
> <cellar47@...> wrote:
> >
> > There's a difference between "not acting
> emotional" and "acting
> emotionless." Bresson's models are the former.
> >
> > There's also an interview with Bresson at the time
> of "Pickpocket"
> on YouTube. He's very funny, flirty and sly in it.
> He responds to the
> question of whether he ever knew any pickpockets as
> if the questioner
> asked him if he were gay.
>
>




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