Le Diable Probablement

Robert Bresson - 1977
Their is one thing in the framing here that struck me. Bresson uses an angle that certainly points down, meaning that the world slopes downhill towards downscreen. This means, as we know, he likes to shoot feet and legs at the top of the screen. But here I noticed he does the same things with heads; they are at the top of the screen, but there bodies aren't really underneath.
Bresson's cinema of the present, along with what I read as a slightly old-fashioned (i.e. pre-'68) sensibility, makes there seem an air of shock about the horrors of the world portrayed here. It is as though Bresson has peaked out of his enclosed world (where he produced some of the greatest films ever) and finds it all a remarkable horror, which he is very keen to tell us about; we reply 'well, yes, we know'. I wouldn't really say Bresson has anything interesting, not-abstract about what he shows (using some stock footage, oddly).
Of couruse Bresson is right about what he sees, even if he doesn't diagnose it, and his style remains as remarkable as ever. But still, late and minor.