Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on June 12, 2007 at 09:09:53

through the device of crime.
The protagonist, through purposeful false testimony, is wrongfully convicted of a crime. While he is in jail, tragedy strikes his family. The man who lied also is jailed within the same prison.
SPOILER.
It is critical that this man refuses to engage Yvon in his revenge. He also uses his crimes to help others, hence the redemption I earlier mentioned.
Yvon, however, perhaps because of his tragic circumstances, descends further and further into serious crime.
The scenes at the farmhouse are as chilling as anything Chabrol ever filmed and also as beautiful as anything Renoir made.
Bresson may not be, as Marguerite Duras claims, alone at the pinnacle of film, creating something altogether different in a profound way, but he certainly is an original genius and a powerful giant of film.
The Netflix copy has an interesting interview in which he narrates how he made films: it is very different from Rohmer's technique, almost the opposite, in fact.