Film Stills |=| The Μeaning of Hands | Robert Bresson, 1943-1983

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The Μeaning of Hands | Robert Bresson, 1943-1983

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Robert Bresson, L’Argent, 1983
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Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1959
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Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1959
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Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, 1966
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Robert Bresson, Mouchette, 1967
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Robert Bresson,  Une Femme Douce,  1969
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Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, 1966
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Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, 1966
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Robert Bresson,  Une Femme Douce,  1969

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Robert Bresson, L’Argent, 1983
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Robert Bresson,The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne, 1945

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Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1959

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Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1959
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Robert Bresson, L’Argent, 1983
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Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped, 1956

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Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped, 1956

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Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped, 1956

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Angels of Sin, 1943

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Robert Bresson, The Devil, Probably, 1977
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“Another thing I was aware of was that nearly all gestures, all of our ways of talking, are mechanical.
It’s true. You put your hand like this. Look. There are two pages in Montaigne about the way our
hands go where we don’t want them to go. He’s a writer who isn’t really difficult. You can always
read a page or two and find something. Theatre consists of well controlled gestures and words.
Cinema must be something different—not controlled. It must be the equivalent of life, like any art,
but certainly not copied or simulated.”

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Robert Bresson 
(from a conversation the director had with Ronald Hayman, published in The Transatlantic 
Review No. 46/7, Summer 1973 (London) and transcribed for Doug Cummings for www.robert-bresson.com)

Hands of Bresson (2014) / Created for the Criterion Collection
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A work of archival criticism that forgoes the language of rigour for that of rapture…
here are hands – votive, tender, purloining, trembling – that make me want to raise
my own hands in gratitude to this mysterious poet.”

Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight & Sound (best films of 2014)

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“The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!…
How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!”
Robert Bresson
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