My Rating : 10/10 ♠ MASTERPIECE ♠
A colour-oeuvre by Bresson.
Employing flashbacks, 'A Gentle Creature' is consistently mysterious and engaging. Composition and narrative undecidability (this in part is also a reveal of the protagonist's persona which is honest in addition to the flashbacks) has been transformed into easy to decipher storytelling-fragments that interlink rhythmically thus creating a peripheral structure of filmic-text.
The spine of colours used are incandescent with the liquidity of the filmic medium's ability to make the viewer feel rather than intellectualise.
The agony of the protagonist has been conveyed with time's inconsistent and irritating passage thus creating a semblance of the protagonist's internal suffering for the viewer to actually feel.
For the discerning viewer, hints of the unprofessionalism of the actors (in Bressonian terms 'Models') is interesting to note and makes for Bresson's signature style of spontaneity- framing. This spontaneity-framing is also beautifully showcased in the ending-frames and makes for a pleasant surprise for the introspective viewer.
An intelligent and passionate Bresson cinematic-text. 'A Gentle Creature' scorned by her circumstances - Her rebellion is an inward-destroyer rather than an influence of the exteriority which she is born into (which is quietly powerful). Her pensiveness is Art of the highest of highs and the last frame is testament to this.
A colour-oeuvre by Bresson.
Employing flashbacks, 'A Gentle Creature' is consistently mysterious and engaging. Composition and narrative undecidability (this in part is also a reveal of the protagonist's persona which is honest in addition to the flashbacks) has been transformed into easy to decipher storytelling-fragments that interlink rhythmically thus creating a peripheral structure of filmic-text.
The spine of colours used are incandescent with the liquidity of the filmic medium's ability to make the viewer feel rather than intellectualise.
The agony of the protagonist has been conveyed with time's inconsistent and irritating passage thus creating a semblance of the protagonist's internal suffering for the viewer to actually feel.
For the discerning viewer, hints of the unprofessionalism of the actors (in Bressonian terms 'Models') is interesting to note and makes for Bresson's signature style of spontaneity- framing. This spontaneity-framing is also beautifully showcased in the ending-frames and makes for a pleasant surprise for the introspective viewer.
An intelligent and passionate Bresson cinematic-text. 'A Gentle Creature' scorned by her circumstances - Her rebellion is an inward-destroyer rather than an influence of the exteriority which she is born into (which is quietly powerful). Her pensiveness is Art of the highest of highs and the last frame is testament to this.