Charles Le Clainche, François Leterrier, Jacques Ertaud
"This story is true," reads the opening statement of A Man Escaped. "I give it as it is, without embellishment." Based on the memoir by Andre Devigny, a member of the French Resistance impris...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 25, 2004
Stats: 198 reviews
a stunning prison drama, based on the memoirs of a french pow who escaped the nazis and a sentence of death. we witness every painstaking detail of his plan and it's execution. i must say i greatly admire bresson's directing style, using untrained actors and a minimalist approa...( read more)
A minimalist work of powerful and dramatic precision. Bresson tells the story of a prison break without any contrivance nor decoration, with naturalism and painstaking attention to the sound, the enviroment, and the main character's thoughts. the suspense is nail-biting, and the ...( read more)
A masterpiece of sound and precision. Bresson's film is without a doubt the most spare POW or prison film ever made, its also I think likely the best. In all of its deliberate pacing and lack of dialogue (save for frequent narration) A Man Escaped is a riveting and tense film. ...( read more)
A 1956 prison film from the acclaimed French director, Robert Bresson. The only other Bresson film I?d seen was Au Hasard Balthazar, which was super arty and super boring even for me. Balthazar is a movie so boring that even Ingmar Bergman said he couldn?t sit through it, and I...( read more)
pure cinema to the core but often hard to digest, the fundamentals are executed very well with emphasis on minimalized sound, pacing was erratic and its intrinsic value ages poorly, bresson's personal film
Of the other five films and now this, I can say safely this is, impressive yes for its innovative techniques in sound and depth of construction of image, where tension is held off while allowing thought to pervade the whole scenario and also giving the audience an idea to cope ab...( read more)
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