Money (1983) by Robert Bresson.
“Money is the film that made me want to direct movies. I saw it on television when I was 14, and I didn’t understand anything. I didn’t understand anything but I was deeply moved. I asked myself how it was possible to be moved that way by a film while not knowing what it was really about. I was experiencing a real emotion through the way the sound was used, through the actor performances though it was not realistic, I questioned myself about the framing, I was seeing images, sound, the actors bodies. This is what I look for in films: to feel a real cinematographic emotion, not an emotion based on the story. It’s a quest for a pure cinema writing. Put the trust in cinema, in its tools, in the image, in the sound. In order to stand up nowadays to the dictatorship of emotions -’since I cried it’s good’-, I want to defend a cinematographic emotion that comes from cinema.”

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Read the interview with Ursula Meier.

Ursula Meier studied cinema in Belgium. She directed documentaries, short films including Tous a table, which earned numerous international prizes all other the world, and a film commissioned by German-French TV channel Arte Des épaules solides. She just directed her first 35 mm feature film for cinema, Home, which was presented at Cannes International Critics’ Week in 2008 and stars Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet and Adelaide Leroux.