A Man Escaped
Dir: Robert BressonCast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
101mins 1956 France Certificate: U French
Subtitled A Man Escaped
Part of our Robert Bresson Season, introduced by Dr Martine Pierquin
Based on the true story of a Gestapo prisoner who escaped from prison just hours before his scheduled execution, Robert Bresson’s film is a suspenseful realist drama and a moving metaphorical fable about chance and redemption.
Perhaps most remarkably, Bresson (himself a former prisoner of war) conveys how the significance of everything is transformed by incarceration; sounds offer information, and objects become potential tools for escape.
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