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Through them he pursued common themes, many derived from his Roman Catholic background: the quest for spiritual freedom and fulfilment, the attempt to control destiny, the acceptance of fate. For some critics his vision was cheerless and inhuman but he deliberately refused the concessions that might have given his films a more popular appeal.
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'Bresson's cinema is austere but never cold, sparse but never empty, pared down to the essentials yet brimming with emotion and pregnant meaning.'
-TIME OUT
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