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Bresson would make five more films: Une femme douce (1969), Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971), Lancelot du Lac (1974), Le diable probablement (1977), and L'argent (1983), but his later films don't seem to hold up as well.

While Bresson always centered his films around youth confronting a world gone wrong, in his later films, this theme becomes prevalent, even to the exclusion of his focus on faith.

"I think in the whole world things are going very badly," he said in his later years. "People are becoming more materialist and cruel … Cruel by laziness, by indifference, egotism, because they only think about themselves and not at all about what is happening around them, so they let everything grow ugly and stupid. They are all interested in money only. Money is becoming their God. God doesn't exist for many."

, an occasional feature at Christianity Today Movies, highlights directors who adhere to the Christian faith—sometimes strongly, sometimes loosely, and sometimes somewhere in between. This series will include everyone from biblically-minded evangelicals to directors who may only have a "church background" and perhaps a lapsed faith … but their films are clearly informed by their spiritual history.

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