FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Robert Bresson - Four Night A Dreamer 

Sooner or later, true geeks discover Robert Bresson, although it's guaranteed not to be on netflix. Many of his films are generally not easy to find, so I was especially pleased to have discovered Four Night A Dreamer in good quality! Bresson worked on his first film, after all, in 1933 - his last in 1983. He was never commercially successful, but like no other master of cinema, Bresson is appreciated worldwide. As French filmmakers learned to copy box-office hits during the 1950s, Bresson developed his rigorous, personal style. No one films like him! His films explore nothing less than the mystery of human life. Why do we endure it all? What is our reward? What is the good and how can we achieve it? He is always about characters seeking personal redemption. Many of them are outside of society. We remember the country priest and the pickpocket. Even the donkey. Bresson loves Dostoevsky, and just like Dostoevsky, he prefers characters who stand outside common rules. Four Night A Dreamer is also a Dostoyevsky adaptation. Bresson's working method is famous: he doesn't look for reality, but for transcendence. His actors must repeat the same scenes over and over and over and over and over again. Until total exhaustion. Until any spontaneity becomes impossible and one gets to the essence. He is not an actor-director. Actors are material. Like the light or props. Once you come to terms with his method, you can penetrate Bresson's work. You will never forget it! His films work like acquired taste. Some find them beautiful, but many a hip client of mine was deeply bored. Bresson's work is austere. And spartan. my colleague sulgi liked to call it that. Extremely austere fare. The dreamer in Bresson's film is named Jacques. he works as a painter. He always paints in solid colors. He uses the light to the maximum. All a big cliché? But Jacques doesn't believe the great oaths of love. I think he feels shame. Marthe, on the other hand, is a great romantic and maybe it takes a dreamer to recognize another dreamer?