A story about Joan of Arc adapted and directed by Robert Bresson, Reivew on The Trial of Joan of Arc

At first, I thought Bresson's work was more primitive. There is no timeline control like "The Pickpocket" and "The Diary of a Country Prisoner", and there are not a lot of close-ups in "Dead Man Escape". The trial clips are almost all long shots, and a few shots back to prison are similar. What I noticed at the beginning was more of the pressure from the surrounding, the composition of the film, and the voice-over, which also had a positive rendering feeling to me at the time, so I thought Bresson's film was subjective. Yes, but in fact Bresson has always used the technique of rendering upside down. Compared with Dreyer's full expansion and reinforcement, it presents a kind of emotional squeeze. Bresson evacuated the viewer and squeezed out the emotions. , Take the expansion and contraction of the timeline. Generally, movies tend to stretch the timeline when rendering, while Bresson's movie compresses the timeline. (For example, in "Warrior Lansino", in order to render the cruelty of the war, the author repeatedly closes up the knight wearing the equipment, and then, through a panoramic transition, repeatedly closes up the fleeing warhorse). He only pursues essentialization and downplays Dreyer's sense of sanctity. He is only responsible for expounding things, but can also strengthen a purity of sound and picture. In the same scene, the things narrated by the picture and the sound are often different.

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