Bruce Beresford

Name: It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain
Director: Bruce Beresford
Released: 1963

Country Australia

Born 1940

Defining Films

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

2011

Critical Essay (Excerpt)

That we would see in letters five feet high His name one day spread shining in the gloom Preceded with the words ‘Directed by’ – To doubt that prospect there was never room. He had the screenplay ready in the womb. He was (he’ll know I say it without unction) By nature built for one creative function.

Source: Senses of Cinema — Great Directors

In Their Own Words

We wanted to have the kind of dry, unsentimental approach that Stanley Kubrick had with Paths of Glory. We were very influenced by that film.

On Breaker Morant · National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (quoting ABC's Talking Pictures with Peter Thompson, 1993)

Filmography (40)