Bressonian

"This half-mad cine-Icarus risks a perilous Bressonian ideal: 'The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.'"

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/28. 2007

Both playful and serious, it's a wholly original riff on Bressonian and Ozuesque notions of cine-purity, and very much a film that adheres to its own chivalric code.

GreenCine Daily: Torino Dispatch. 2006

No gratuitous reaction shots or musical cues interrupt to tell us what to think or how to feel; the prudent use of close-ups is almost Bressonian in its economy and control. ...

SFGate: Top News Stories Joseph McBride 2010

Reichardt's realism and, perhaps grandiose, a Bressonian dedication to ideals that invests

Baltimore City Paper 2010

Vue Weekly: There's this quality to Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy I hadn't seen before, a severity, a containment that builds to this transcendent, almost Bressonian level of release when we finally get to see her smile.

Vue Weekly 2009

He's never tried to ape Bressonian simplicity (which is pretty much the opposite of '70s exploitation shlock, which is where he lives), and he could never replicate it if he tried so why bring it up?

Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

This is not a Bressonian exercise, though; they truly inhabit their characters.

GreenCine Daily 2009

Both playful and serious, it's a wholly original riff on Bressonian and Ozuesque notions of cine-purity, and very much a film that adheres to its own chivalric code.

GreenCine Daily 2009

"This half-mad cine-Icarus risks a perilous Bressonian ideal: 'The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.'"

GreenCine Daily 2009

Both playful and serious, it's a wholly original riff on Bressonian and Ozuesque notions of cine-purity, and very much a film that adheres to its own chivalric code.

GreenCine Daily 2009