L' argent and Le diable probablement, two of my favorite films indeed!
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There is something extremely contemporary and avant-garde in L' argent which is often missing in other Bresson movies.
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Just don't say it's the Tolstoy factor
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Strangely, now that you mentioned it, I think it is.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @ekscest and
While Tolstoy might not be to everyone's taste, the movie adaptations of his short works have all been great.
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No problems with Tolstoy, it's just that Bresson's models are so interlocked with Kleist's marionettes, it's all inevitably contemporary and AI-ish
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This is I think he inherited from Zola. When critics complained that Zola's characters are too mechanical, he replied because life is bigger than persons.
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Wonderful tradition indeed
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This is what I call in a tongue-in-cheek manner, elite modernism. With Proust you get the moaning of characters, with Zola you get plot vs character storylines. It's the plot in Ben Singleton's sense that makes ultra-modern blurring of what is mundane and what is cosmic.
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Bazin was the guy to write about that in cinema (and his style was mundane and cosmic at the same time). Btw, I totally understand if he doesn't, but does Singleton still write (can imagine he implements theory with his strategy firm)?
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Ben is still writing, mostly shortly pieces.
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If you know of any links, please do share
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Majority are not published yet. I'll ask Ben if I can share them. They are
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