In interviews, the late French director Robert Bresson--subject of a five-film retrospective at Oak Street Cinema--harped on the distinction between representational "acting" (e.g., performers pretending to be Luke Skywalker or Richard Nixon) and the non-acting of his "models" (who were simply "themselves" onscreen). Yet one of the signature pleasures of Bresson's work, whether he would have liked it said or not,... More >>>