Having finally caught up with Robert Bresson’s deeply obscure and uncharacteristically slapstick first film Les Affaires Publiques, I decided to throw this together just for fun – two screencaps I made that illustrate the difference between the director in 1934 and 1956.
A sentry box, manned and decorated with polka-dots, in Les Affaires Publiques (1934):
A sentry box, unmanned and unadorned, in A Man Escaped (1956):
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