Part of the BAMcinématek series Bresson
Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9:30pm
*Cinemachat with Elliott Stein
Directed by Robert Bresson
With Renée Faure, Jany Holt
(1943) 96min, 35mm
“One of the most astonishing film debuts ever” (David Thompson), Les anges du péché chronicles a crusading nun’s (Faure) tireless efforts to save a defiant convict (Holt) who has been wrongly accused of a crime her lover committed. Produced during the German occupation, the film prefigures Bresson’s later thematic concerns with spirituality, salvation, and freedom, while Holt's “superbly understated performance looks forward to the invisible acting style of Bresson's mature work” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader).
