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Robert Bresson

What We Can Learn From a Simple Tale About a Donkey, ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’
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What We Can Learn From a Simple Tale About a Donkey, ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’

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Laurence Coupe
/ 30 August 2022

As we see in Au Hasard Balthzazr, director Robert Bresson is no world-hater or sanctimonious moralizer. His spirituality is inseparable from his reverence for the material world.

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The Interior Poetry in Bresson’s ‘Mouchette’

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Colin Fitzgerald
/ 29 January 2021
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100 Essential Directors – Robert Bresson

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Dylan Nelson
/ 8 August 2011
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The 100 Essential Directors Part 2: Robert Bresson to David Cronenberg

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PopMatters Staff
/ 4 August 2011

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