Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Antoine Monnier in The Devil, Probably Cast : Antoine Monnier, Tina Irrisari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano, Nicolas Deguy, Régis Hanr...

Nadine Nortier in Mouchette Mouchette : Nadine Nortier Arsène : Jean-Claude Guilbert Mouchette's Mother : Marie Cardinal Mouchett...

I doubt that I would have recognized Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne as a film by Robert Bresson if I hadn't already known it was the s...

When does style become mannerism? And why is it that style is generally thought of as a good thing, and mannerism is often a pejorative? I...

Claude Laydu and Jean Danet in Diary of a Country Priest I chose the still above deliberately, because it's an image uncharacteristi...

François Leterrier in A Man Escaped   Fontaine : François Leterrier François Jost : Charles LeClainche Orsini : Jacques Ertaud Blanch...

Anne Wiazemsky in Au Hasard Balthazar Marie : Anne Wiazemsky Jacques : Walter Green Gérard : François Lafarge Marie's Father : P...

There are two great Joan of Arc films: The other one is Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). But comparing them is...

Maybe it's Bresson fatigue after watching three of his films in as many days (thanks to TCM's programming them in a block), but I f...

Of all the celebrated masterworks of film, Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest may be the most uncompromising in making the case for c...