Olivier Assayas - Style and Influences

Style and Influences

In an interview with Nick Pinkerton of Reverse Shot, Assayas talked about his influences:

"That radicality in cinema involved just being outside of the world of modern images, and the key to it was the work of Robert Bresson, who has been by far the most important influence in my work, and intellectually it’s been the influence of Guy Debord—basically, you know, it’s been Debord-Bresson, Bresson-Debord, the things that’ve always defined my framework, the way I look at the world."

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