——UPGRADED——
Elle steps off the balcony of her Parisian apartment, plunging to her death. Why has she done it? As her pawnbroker husband, Luc, looks over her dead body, director Robert Bresson’s eerie, elegant picture traces their lives together in flashback. Elle is the “Gentle Creature” — meek, dreamy and thoughtful. She entrances Luc, who pursues her passionately. They marry, but the match never seems right, and things turn sour, grimly heading toward an inevitable end.
Director: Robert Bresson. AKA A Gentle Woman
Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky (from the short story by), Robert Bresson (adaptation) (uncredited)
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier, Jacques Kébadian, Gilles Sandier, Dorothée Blank.
Cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet.
Composer: Jean Wiener.
⇓ DOWNLOAD OPTIONS ⇓
ENCODE:
MP4 | 2.60 GB | 1193×720 | 23.796 FPS | 4000 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Language: French | Subtitles: English (hard)
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SOURCE FILE:
MKV | 12.3 GB | 1792×1080 | 23.976 FPS | 19,700 kb/s | FLAC 225 kb/s
Language: French | Subtitles: English, French
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ROBERT BRESSON INTERVIEW:
MP4 | 121 MB | 960×720 | 23.976 FPS | 2093 kb/s | AAC 160 kb/s
Language: French | Subtitles: English (hard)
DOMINIQUE SANDA INTERVIEW:
MP4 | 146 MB | 960×720 | 59.940 FPS | 3537 kb/s | AAC 160 kb/s
Language: French | Subtitles: English (hard)
((Upgraded with HD copies on December 25th, 2025.))
Big thank you, Jon!
Wow I’ve been looking for this everywhere. Never even thought of requesting it. Thanks so much Jon for this upload!
Thank you!
Bresson’s silences, his understatement, the ellipses when we look for answers is what I find so compelling. Thank you for this film and perhaps more Bresson if possible?
Thank you
Was this transferred from VHS? The image quality is not very good, and the aspect ratio is not correct.
It was, yep, was transfered from an old TV airing recorded on VHS, the only copy available at the time, but now I just upgraded to HD 😎. Shout out to Radiance!
Thanks for this upgrade, Jon.
Always good to see Bresson in better quality. Ditto, the estimable Dominique Sanda.
And thank you VERY MUCH for the additional short with the late Maurice Bejart!. While (for me) his choreography — more often than not —– epitomized the worst of kitschy Eurotrash, he was a kind and good hearted man in a world that often eschews such qualities.