Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson 25 September 1901 18 December 1999 was a French film director Known for his ascetic approach Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema his nonprofessional actors ellipses and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film Bresson is among the most highly regarded filmmakers of all time He has the most number seven of films in the Top 250 list of greatest films ever made published by Sight and Sound in 2012 His works A Man Escaped 1956 Pickpocket 1959 and Au hasard Balthazar 1966 were ranked among the 100 greatest films ever made in the 2012 Sight Sound critics poll Other films of his such as Mouchette 1967 and LArgent 1983 also received many votes JeanLuc Godard once wrote He is the French cinema as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music Source Wikipedia