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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Very much. I've not seen all of his films but I put everything I have seen firmly in the great + category. Bresson's up there among the very best of the best for me.
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I will co-sign. Bresson always floors me. That atmosphere he creates really draws you into its vacuum and then he startles you with moments of poetry and grace. The end of Pickpocket, when the music plays as they kiss after all that silence is almost unbearably beautiful. And Balthazar? I think about it almost every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQPrlkUjKrw
At first, I did not like Country Priest or Mouchette as much as I loved Balthazar or Pickpocket. Mouchette especially feel at times like Balthazar 2. I need to rewatch that one soon. Fuck it, both of them are in the que now.
I highly recommend L'argent to anyone who's never seen it. It was made in, I think, '83 and it was his last film. It is a film with absolutely no fat at all and is suffocatingly bleak, but I think it is a great culmination of his body of work.
Also, Paul Schrader's recent film First Reformed is a bit of a Country Priest remake (although that's not exactly what it is). Maybe if one doesn't dig Bresson's Country Priest, try checking that out.
Oh man Bresson! I'm going to go watch Mouchette now.