The Rhythm of Film is the Heartbeat Author: [France] Milena Bresson (editor) Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

Introduction
▸ “The rhythm of a film should come from the rhythm of writing, from the heartbeat.”
▸A philosopher with a camera, an innovator of film language
▸Full collection of authoritative interviews with Robert Bresson
▸Chinese version introduced for the first time!
◂Concentrating the essence of forty years of creation, carving ideas with concise and prudent language, showing passion and wisdom
◂A meditation on film writing, a collection of maxims that question art and life
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Robert Bresson is one of the greatest film directors of the 20th century. He wrote about the human spiritual world with minimalist film language. His unique aesthetics has profoundly influenced the history of world cinema and was highly praised by masters such as Tarkovsky and Godard. This silent and detached film sage slowly explored the path of art and left only fourteen films in his lifetime.
"The Rhythm of Cinema is the Heartbeat: Robert Bresson in Conversation" is the only conversation collection of Bresson, which includes all the important conversations in his 40-year artistic career, and is personally compiled by his widow Milena Bresson. This book takes the creative process as the warp and the film aesthetics as the weft. In it, Bresson tells his philosophical thoughts on art and life, and every word is a motto, concise but passionate. These thoughts...
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About the Author
Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
A French director and screenwriter, he is one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century. His films such as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), A Man Escaped (1956), Pickpocket (1959), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), Probably the Devil (1977), and Money (1983) are world-renowned and regarded as classics in film history. In his more than 40-year film career, Bresson shot a total of 13 feature films and one short film, and won dozens of awards at international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, and Venice, with a far-reaching influence. He is the author of Notes on Film Writing.
Mylène Bresson
Born Marie-Madeleine van der Mersch, she was the assistant director of the film Four Nights of a Dreamer (1972) and the widow of Robert Bresson.
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