Each one of his 13 films is a masterpiece in my view, so that you have to distinguish between his greater and lesser masterpieces. I took a poet friend to see what turned out to be Bresson's last picture, L'argent. She was a big admirer of Paul Schrader's movies (when Schrader was to Bresson what Brian de Palma was to Hitchcock) and had never seen a Bresson movie. Afterward she said it was like having only read imitation Ginsberg poems and then reading the real Ginsberg.
Each one of his 13 films is a masterpiece in my view, so that you have to distinguish between his greater and lesser masterpieces. I took a poet friend to see what turned out to be Bresson's last picture, L'argent. She was a big admirer of Paul Schrader's movies (when Schrader was to Bresson what Brian de Palma was to Hitchcock) and had never seen a Bresson movie. Afterward she said it was like having only read imitation Ginsberg poems and then reading the real Ginsberg.
Superfine artist.