Anodyne
Sunday, November 20, 2005
 

Robert Bresson's Pickpocket, on tonight at the Pacific Cinematheque. Bresson pioneered the notion of using performers instead of actors, and of exhaustively rehearsing them so as to expunge all traces of "expression" from their performances. Meaning as gesture and narrative logic, not as an articulation of one's "feelings."
- posted by cjb @ 9:44 AM


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