The Trial

Unsurprisingly, Orson Welles doesn’t efface his artistic personality for The Trial.

[A] singular two-hour experience, as dynamic and strange as anything Welles made.

[A] fearless Kafka adaptation...

Perkins gives one of the best performances of his career in The Trial, aided by an outstanding array of stellar players.

Who better to reveal the system's evil genius than Welles, the golden boy turned Hollywood martyr?

Overwhelmingly bleak, but exciting cinema.

What we basically end up with is an intriguing road to nowhere, one that has some interesting sights to see along the way, but which needed a little more substance to help make the journey worth it.

...among Welles' most brilliantly realized creations...

What grubby filth! Josef K. (Anthony Perkins) is an office man, an ambitious junior bureaucrat, long and thin as a blade in knife-sharp suits... exacting haircut, encased in timeless tailoring, a trim suit... slim pants with pleats crisp as glass.

…deliberately uncomfortable by design…leans far closer to a unheralded masterpiece than a commercial disaster…