If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn’t simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn’t simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
“If he is conscientious, his preliminary work consists precisely of moving backward from the effect to the cause. Starting from this end result — the viewer’s emotional response — he looks for the combinations that will be most effective in its creation. It’s a path taken in reverse, a step-by-step retreat, full of choices, puzzles, redactions, interpolations, that arrives inevitably at the origins of the composition: that is, at composition itself.”
Robert Bresson