A story about Joan of Arc adapted and directed by Robert Bresson

Leif 2022-02-24 08:02:17

At first, I thought Bresson's work was more primitive. There is no timeline control like "The Pickpocket" and "The Diary of a Country Prisoner", and there are not a lot of close-ups in "Dead Man Escape". The trial clips are almost all long shots, and a few shots back to prison are similar. What I noticed at the beginning was more of the pressure from the surrounding, the composition of the film, and the voice-over, which also had a positive rendering feeling to me at the time, so I thought Bresson's film was subjective. Yes, but in fact Bresson has always used the technique of rendering upside down. Compared with Dreyer's full expansion and reinforcement, it presents a kind of emotional squeeze. Bresson evacuated the viewer and squeezed out the emotions. , Take the expansion and contraction of the timeline. Generally, movies tend to stretch the timeline when rendering, while Bresson's movie compresses the timeline. (For example, in "Warrior Lansino", in order to render the cruelty of the war, the author repeatedly closes up the knight wearing the equipment, and then, through a panoramic transition, repeatedly closes up the fleeing warhorse). He only pursues essentialization and downplays Dreyer's sense of sanctity. He is only responsible for expounding things, but can also strengthen a purity of sound and picture. In the same scene, the things narrated by the picture and the sound are often different.

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  • Eryn 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    623@Lu Xin is so stingy that there are only court arguments and line drawings, swollen feet, a dog and two birds.

  • General 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    A condensed, calm and solemn film, focusing on the trial itself, without any fancy elements, rational and speculative answers during the trial, Joan of Arc's belief is firm, and piety is no different from the essence of the church, only because she is supported and challenged by the Holy See. Authoritative, "shocking the world" has become her unforgivable crime, the image of the saint in men's clothing has an indescribable modernity, the ideas of Bresson's film and his advance, half a century later, it seems that it can be injected with some kind of new The interpretation angle of 20190620@raffles rewatches the failure of the subtitle machine, everyone collectively asks for the release of raw meat, which is rare haha

The Trial of Joan of Arc quotes

  • Bishop Cauchon: You must tell your judge the truth.

    Jeanne d'Arc: Beware of calling yourself my judge.

  • Jeanne d'Arc: I heard it in church. There was light all around. There was always a light. The third time I recognized the voice of an angel. It told me to lift the siege at Orléans. First I was to go to Vaucouleurs. The voice told me what would happen.