Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson was born in Bromont-Lamothe, in the Puy-de-Dôme, on 25 September 1901. He began painting at school and was a painter and photographer before coming to cinema. During the Second World War, he was a prisoner in a German camp. Instead of professional actors, he used inexperienced performers, whom he called his models. He died in Droue-sur-Drouette on 18 December 1999, at the age of ninety-eight.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaPickpocketRobert Bresson · 1959Cinema
• CinemaMouchetteRobert Bresson · 1967Cinema