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Robert Bresson – Quatre nuits d’un rêveur AKA Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

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Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.

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White Nights, distilled — Dostoevsky wrote it, Visconti embraced the romanticism, Robert Bresson makes it a sardonic beating around the bush. His dreamer is some stand-in for Jean-Pierre Léaud called Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts), who thumbs a ride and shrugs when asked of his destination, then, feeling happy in the meadow, turns a cartwheel. He spots grave, caped Marthe (Isabelle Weingarten) by the edge of the Pont Neuf; she removes her shoes and stares into the water below, Jacques halts the suicide, she steps back and puts her shoes on. “My story? I have no story,” he says. “Histoire de Jacques” flashes on the screen, a knowing serving of Truffaut — Jacques spots a looker through the shopping window, follows her through the streets only to turn 180° as he passes another girl, who hops a bus and disappears. An even richer send-up pivots Marthe’s story, which sends her to a movie premiere courtesy of her boarder (Maurice Monnoyer), a thriller that has the hero shot in the head yet still able to lavishly pull out a pic of his beloved and give it a final smooch (“We have fallen into a trap,” she whispers to her mother, whose face streams with tears). Bresson provides prismatic views of the heroine’s nakedness before her mirror, segueing into her love vow to Monnoyer, delineated as a remembrance of The Awful Truth. The barge propelled by bossa nova gives a rare instance of the auteur sitting back and enjoying a performance, for the rest he’s implacable about the characters’ dreams. Jacques murmurs into a recorder about the purity of love and even plays the tape in his breast pocket so that the girl’s name palpitates like his heart, but the truth is that he cannot give himself over to emotion like Marthe — he resents and envies her wholehearted stance because his is only a notional one, love “with no one, an idea, the woman in my dream.” Bresson rounds out his leveling comedy with shaggy troubadours and painterly jibes (which vexed Manny Farber), leaving romance disembodied and the hero bent over his canvas, waiting to be picked up again twenty years later by Leos Carax. Cinematography by Pierre Lhomme. With Lidia Biondi, Patrick Jouanné, and Jérôme Massart.

Quatre.nuits.d'un.reveur.1971.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 22 min
Size: 	2.67 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	956x576 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	4 386 kb/s
BPP: 	0.332
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#1:  	French 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Etantje JPN Blu-ray (2016))

https://nitro.download/view/3E74C5AFAC94C19/Quatre.nuits.d’un.reveur.1971.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

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Robert Bresson – Une femme douce AKA A Gentle Woman (1969)

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Une femme douce (1969)

Bresson’s brilliant adaptation of Dostoevsky’s short story (A Gentle Creature) exhibits in its lapidary sequences the political and existential revolt of a young student in Paris. Sharing a theme that can be traced from Bresson’s Mouchette to his fantastic exploration of revolutionary choices in The Devil Probably, Une Femme Douce articulates in its inimitable minimalist mode a range of issues from the ideological options of France post-May ’68 to human relationships. Dominique Sanda is not the conventional, recognizable student revolutionary, but a “gentle” philosopher whose powers of sensitivity and social scrutiny exceed and tease the prosaic, crude disposition of her bourgeois husband. The sequences in the zoo, the museum of natural history and the performance of Hamlet are powerful. On another note, look out for Indian experimental filmmaker Kumar Shahani who was assisting Bresson at this time, sitting diagonally behind Sanda in the sequence at the movie theater.

Robert Bresson - Une Femme Douce [1969].mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
Size: 	2.23 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 400 kb/s
BPP: 	0.148
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#1:  	French 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/C4A536EAE142CE5/Robert_Bresson_-_Une_Femme_Douce__1969_.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3A0915B4BF704DA/Robert_Bresson_-_Une_Femme_Douce__1969_.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:French, English

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Robert Bresson – Affaires publiques AKA Public Affairs (1934)

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Bresson’s first film is, totally uncharacteristically, a slapstick comedy, centred around two neighbouring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching of a ship, and the crash-landing of a Miremian pilot in Crogandian territory.

407MB | 22m 44s | 512×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/D984D47344A0209/Robert_Bresson_-_Les_Affaires_Publiques_1934_VHSrip_Xvid.avi
https://nitro.download/view/5D32675406AE596/Robert_Bresson___Les_Affaires_Publiques_1934_VHSrip_Xvid.srt

Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Robert Bresson – Lancelot du Lac AKA Lancelot of the Lake (1974)

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A million miles away from ‘Camelot’ or ‘Excalibur’, this film ruthlessly strips the Arthurian legend down to its barest essentials. Arthur’s knights, far from being heroic, are conniving and greedy men who, just before the film starts, have failed miserably to find the Holy Grail. Aimlessly resentful at first, the developing relationship between Lancelot and Queen Guinevere focuses their rage, leading to inevitable tragedy…

2.14GB | 1h 24m | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/7D0836866545596/Lancelot_of_the_Lake_(1974)_–_Robert_Bresson.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English,Japanese (muxed)

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Robert Bresson – Au hasard Balthazar (1966) (HD)

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The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson’s Mouchette.

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In the French countryside near the Pyrenees, a baby donkey is adopted by young children – Jacques and his sisters, who live on a farm. They baptize the donkey (and christen it Balthazar) along with Marie, Jacques’ childhood sweetheart, whose father is the teacher at the small school next-door. When one of Jacques’ sisters dies, his family vacates the farm, and Marie’s family take it over in a loose arrangement. The donkey is given away to local farmhands who work it very hard. Years pass until Balthazar is involved in an accident and runs off, finding its way back to Marie, who is now a teenager. But her father gets involved in legal wrangles over the farm and the donkey is given away to a local bakery for delivery work.

Gerard, leader of a young criminal gang, is the delivery boy at the bakery, and so takes charge of the donkey, treating it cruelly. Marie, driving a 2CV one day, sees the donkey at the roadside and stops to greet it. Gerard, who’d been sleeping nearby, gets into her car. They have sex, and then she drives home. Marie later enters into an abusive relationship with him, leaving her parents. Gerard is summoned to the local police station and questioned about a murder, along with Arnold, an alcoholic who is also a suspect. Neither is arrested. Balthazar becomes ill, and Arnold takes the donkey off Gerard’s hands.

Balthazar recovers and Arnold uses the donkey and another to guide tourists around the Pyrenees. When the season ends, Balthazar escapes and joins a circus. But when the donkey sees Arnold in the audience it goes berserk, and Arnold retrieves it. Arnold’s uncle dies and he inherits a fortune. He throws a wild party at a bar, and then is put on Balthazar’s back to ride home. However, he is so drunk he falls off, hits his head on the ground and dies. The police send Balthazar to market. A local miller buys the donkey, using it for pumping water and milling. One rainy night, Marie, soaking wet, knocks on the miller’s door asking for shelter – she has run away from Gerard. The miller says he’ll be her friend and help her to ‘escape’ – but next morning sees her parents and offers them the donkey, the implication being that Marie will follow. Marie goes back to her parents. Jacques visits, wanting to marry her and also saying his father does not want the money the court ordered Marie’s father to pay him. But Marie is not sure she wants to marry Jacques. She says she wants to ‘have it out’ with Gerard and goes to visit a barn where they used to meet. Gerard is there with his gang, and they strip her, beat her, then lock her in.

Marie’s father and Jacques find her and break a window to get in. They take her home, pulled in a cart by Balthazar. Later Jacques wants to see Marie, but her mother comes downstairs and says ‘she’s gone and will never come back’. Marie’s father dies shortly after, when visited by a priest. While Marie’s mother is grieving, Gerard turns up with his gang and asks if he can borrow Balthazar. Ostensibly it’s for a procession, but they use the donkey to carry contraband for smuggling over the border.

At night, when Gerard and accomplice are supposed to be meeting their contact, they are instead shot at and they flee. Balthazar runs off and hides in bushes. In the morning, we see Balthazar has a gunshot wound. A shepherd and flock comes. The sheep gather around Balthazar, their bells jangling, as he lays down and dies.

6.41GB | 1h 35m | 1194×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/257878CADB13429/Au_Hasard_Balthazar_1966_720p_BluRay_AAC2.0_x264-EA.mkv
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https://tezfiles.com/file/097195870fcfc/Au_Hasard_Balthazar_1966_720p_BluRay_AAC2.0_x264-EA.mp4

Language:French
Subtitles:English, Spanish

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Robert Bresson – Journal d’un curé de campagne aka Diary of a Country Priest [+ commentary] (1951)

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A new priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. With his fourth film, Robert Bresson began to implement his stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialogue and the music, exacting a purity of image and sound.

3.39GB | 1h 55m | 788×576 | mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French

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Robert Bresson – Procès de Jeanne d’Arc AKA The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

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Trial of Joan of Arc opens to the austere, fragmented image of the hurried footsteps of an indistinguishable figure dressed in a black robe. Carrying a parchment into the vestibule of a chapel, an unidentified woman delivers a personal statement on her daughter’s religious upbringing and death at the hands of the church, visibly supported by two sympathetic advocates. The somber and official tone of the grieving mother’s testament is subsequently reflected in the demeanor of the accused, Jeanne d’Arc (Florence Delay), who is first introduced through a shot of her manacled hands as she places them on an opened Bible before beginning her sworn testimony in front of the presiding judge, Bishop Cauchon (Jean-Claude Fourneau). Direct, rational, and resolute in her conviction, her responses are met with skepticism and contempt by the clergy who are eager for an expedient disposition of her case in order to appease the British authorities. However, unable to break her will, Jeanne is subjected to interminable cross-examinations, secret monitoring by unscrupulous British guards, and threats of physical torture and violation in an attempt to force a confession on the charges of heresy and witchcraft, in order to ensure her death sentence by burning at the stake.

In contrast to the highly emotive, polarized, and concentrated inquisition of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Robert Bresson’s filmic adaptation, similarly based on the actual transcripts of the trial, is emotionally muted, bureaucratic, and methodical. Through a ritualistic presentation of Jeanne’s imprisonment and trial, Bresson visually correlates Jeanne’s inviolable conviction with her spiritual redemption: the intrusive sound of foreign (English) voices as courtroom spectators call for Jeanne’s death and British guards systematically peer through a hole into her prison cell; Jeanne’s tempered and deliberate responses to the judges’ interrogation that is visually reflected in her depiction through medium shots; the disembodied framing of the quick footsteps in the opening sequence that is contrasted against repeated images of Jeanne’s shackled feet in the prison cell. Inevitably, as the symbol of Jeanne’s physical captivity is visually transformed in the shot of her rushed footsteps as she is led to the stake, her corporeal station of oppression and human suffering is transfigured into an indelible image of purity, spiritual liberation, and eternity.

Acquarello. “Robert Bresson.”

1.72GB | 1h 04m | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0ED18D75A91C9E2/Proces.de.Jeanne.d.Arc.AKA.The.Trial.Of.Joan.Of.Arc.1962.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French

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