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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October 5th, 2012 at 9:57 am
hehe… I like that. A gulf separates the two.
Jonathan
October 5th, 2012 at 11:58 am
I was hoping this post would make at least one person smile. I should’ve known it would be you!
October 6th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Sh*t,I didn’t get it.I have a very obscure idea,just can’t express it in words!