Robert bresson filmography

The Harvard Film Archive is proud to present a complete retrospective of the feature films of Robert Bresson (1901 - 1999). Bresson is widely recognized and celebrated as the auteur who, more than any other single artist, has exerted a gravitational pull shaping the stylistic course of contemporary world cinema.

Diverse filmmakers from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Tsai Ming-liang have echoed Bresson’s elliptical narratives of sin and redemption, grace and transcendence. Equally influential is the unique ascetic minimalism that imparts music and sound in Bresson's films with an ontological force and spiritual presence.

In fact, Bresson is one of those rare filmmakers whose influence extends beyond cinema to art, literature and music, with Dennis Cooper, Stephen Prina and Patti Smith, among many other luminaries, testifying to his shaping influence upon their work.

Biographical information about Bresson, particularly his early life