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Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film By Tony Pipolo Oxford University Press, $29.95
French filmmaker Robert Bresson never recovered from his time as a German prisoner of war, and each of his 13 films explores a different element of redemption and deliverance. Raised a Catholic, he began his artistic career as a painter before adopting filmmaking,or "action painting," as his medium of choice. Whether or not this incarceration spurred Bresson's conversion to the canvas...