thanks for ruining some of the supposedly greatest films of all time from one of the greatest directors of all time. I was planning to watch Bressons films for the first time over the next week or 2 after finally getting hold of les anges du peches on VHS so I can watch chronologically. Nice one idiot.Nihonophile wrote:be on the look out for the Bresson 'We are sad and we die' giftset featuring Diary of a country priest, Au hasard balthazar, and the new release Mouchette. More Details Soon!
Robert Bresson and Plot (SPOILERS!)
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Yeah, damn you....I thought they all lived happily ever after, as they do in all of Bresson's other films!Artois wrote:thanks for ruining some of the supposedly greatest films of all time from one of the greatest directors of all time. I was planning to watch Bressons films for the first time over the next week or 2 after finally getting hold of les anges du peches on VHS so I can watch chronologically. Nice one idiot.Nihonophile wrote:be on the look out for the Bresson 'We are sad and we die' giftset featuring Diary of a country priest, Au hasard balthazar, and the new release Mouchette. More Details Soon!
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Welcome to the forum!Artois wrote:thanks for ruining some of the supposedly greatest films of all time from one of the greatest directors of all time. I was planning to watch Bressons films for the first time over the next week or 2 after finally getting hold of les anges du peches on VHS so I can watch chronologically. Nice one idiot.Nihonophile wrote:be on the look out for the Bresson 'We are sad and we die' giftset featuring Diary of a country priest, Au hasard balthazar, and the new release Mouchette. More Details Soon!
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... because the plot details are what are really important in a Bresson film.Artois wrote:thanks for ruining some of the supposedly greatest films of all time from one of the greatest directors of all time. I was planning to watch Bressons films for the first time over the next week or 2 after finally getting hold of les anges du peches on VHS so I can watch chronologically. Nice one idiot.Nihonophile wrote:be on the look out for the Bresson 'We are sad and we die' giftset featuring Diary of a country priest, Au hasard balthazar, and the new release Mouchette. More Details Soon!
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He didn't ruin everything: only the donkey dies in Balthazaar, not the girl.Artois wrote:thanks for ruining some of the supposedly greatest films of all time from one of the greatest directors of all time. I was planning to watch Bressons films for the first time over the next week or 2 after finally getting hold of les anges du peches on VHS so I can watch chronologically. Nice one idiot.Nihonophile wrote:be on the look out for the Bresson 'We are sad and we die' giftset featuring Diary of a country priest, Au hasard balthazar, and the new release Mouchette. More Details Soon!
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heh I've been reading this board for a little over a year and have long admired your posts but that is just downright idiotic, are you really that jaded? Just because you (and it seems others) like to know all about the films so that when you watch it you can skip the emotional 'first viewing' where one is drawn into the narrative and skip straight to the analysis viewing, doesn't mean everyone else does. My love for cinema is first and foremost as a spectator before a critic, and I firmly believe the ideal is to approach a film from a state of complete ignorance for the full impact of the first viewing.Andre Jurieu wrote:... because the plot details are what are really important in a Bresson film.Artois wrote:thanks for ruining some of the supposedly greatest films of all time from one of the greatest directors of all time. I was planning to watch Bressons films for the first time over the next week or 2 after finally getting hold of les anges du peches on VHS so I can watch chronologically. Nice one idiot.Nihonophile wrote:be on the look out for the Bresson 'We are sad and we die' giftset featuring Diary of a country priest, Au hasard balthazar, and the new release Mouchette. More Details Soon!
How is one supposed to have any kind of genuine emotional response when they know exactly what's going to happen? People on this forum obsess about 1% cropped off the side edge, yet something like what's been revealed here won't affect the experience or impact at least in part? The focus of the films may not be the plot, but the plot is still a device which serves a purpose, I don't doubt the film is still a powerful work of art no matter what you know about it prior, but it won't be as powerful the first time around. From a site of supposedly cinema lovers, why would people be so nonchalant of diminishing someones, ANYONES experiece of a great film/director like this?
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Langlois68 wrote:Michael Kerpan wrote:> He didn't ruin everything: only the donkey dies in Balthazaar, not the girl.
Hmm, must be an alternate version -- re-cut for Hollywood.
I meant the girl in Balthazaar- not Mouchette. I didn't mean for my spoilers to be confusing.
Kerpan wasn't mixing his spoiler 'metaphors', rather making an ironic comment on what types of movies can be spoiled by spoilers.
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;~}luxetnox wrote:Kerpan wasn't mixing his spoiler 'metaphors', rather making an ironic comment on what types of movies can be spoiled by spoilers.
To tell the truth, it a movie can actually be spoiled by a spoiler, it isn't really a movie I'm interested in seeing even once.
People need to recall that Bresson's original audiences were probably already familiar with the stories he was adapting -- so he surely expected people to know what happens at the end of Mouchette and AHB, etc.
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oh, come on. most of Michael Haneke's movies say hello. it would decidedly impact the intensity of the initial viewing if you knew what was going to happen before seeing Funny Games or The Seventh Continent or Cache.Michael Kerpan wrote:To tell the truth, it a movie can actually be spoiled by a spoiler, it isn't really a movie I'm interested in seeing even once.
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