A MAN ESCAPED
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- A MAN ESCAPED
- (UN CONDAMNÉ A MORT S’EST ÉCHAPPÉ)
- 1956, Robert Bresson, France, 100 min.
- With François Leterrier, Charles le Clainche
"Essential viewing...the best of all prison-escape movies...the greatest achievement of Robert Bresson."
—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"Few films have seemed more absorbing to me...Watching a film like A MAN ESCAPED is like a lesson in the cinema."
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Often cited as Bresson’s most accessible film, A MAN ESCAPED combines elements of the prison genre with Bresson’s personal vision of earthly spirituality. Incarcerated and condemned to death by the Gestapo, a French Resistance fighter concentrates with single-minded intensity on a daring escape plan. Bresson creates a modern parable of the attainment of grace, as the hero’s quest leads him to a perilous “leap of faith.” In French with English subtitles. 35mm. (Phil M. Zender)
