A Man Escaped (Blu-ray)
Robert Bresson's Prize Winning Film
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | François Leterrier | |
Performer: | Charles Le Clainche & Maurice Beerblock | |
Directed by | Robert Bresson | |
Edited by | Raymond Lamy | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Bresson | |
Story by | Andre Devigny | |
Director of Photography: | Leonce-Henry Burel |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1957 -
Best Director: Robert Bresson
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Since we never get aware of Fontaine's motivation; the only reason becomes to 'revolt against the system in place.' This makes A Man Escaped a transcendental prison drama that stands way beyond the comprehension of generic prison-escape films.
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High on Films
Rating: 5/5 --
Even the title dispenses with unnecessary frills: A man escaped. What more do you need to know?
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Time Out
The best of all prison-escape movies, it reconstructs the very notion of freedom through offscreen sounds and defines salvation in terms of painstakingly patient and meticulous effort.
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Chicago Reader
[With] a balance of form and content as perfect as that of the Mozart mass which occasionally underscores the action.
Sight and Sound
Rating: A+ --
It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/4 --
Bresson's [film] is both the most realistic and the most poetic of jailbreak films.
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Chicago Tribune
...[We too] experience the prisoner's anxieties about imminent death or freedom. -- Rating: A+
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Avoiding all the clichés of the prison movie genre, Robert Bresson achieves the impossible in A MAN ESCAPED: he presents a highly minimalist depiction of a prisoner plotting a jailbreak, and is still able to evoke incredible suspense despite the fact that the movie frequently consists of little more than a man toiling away quietly in his cell.
Neither Bresson's seemingly odd choice of a past-tense title, nor the fact that the film is based on a real WWII event in which a prisoner successfully escaped a German-run jail in occupied France, lessens the film's impact. As in many of Bresson's films, the protagonist is a possessed individual whose mission sustains him. While he may stubbornly continue planning, the viewer sees the potential hazards he may encounter and feels an incredible sense of tension each time his efforts are stalled.
Bresson inserts a spiritual element into the prisoner's behavior by emphasizing the ritualistic nature of his daily activities, and by showing how group activity and trust are required to resist the evil, personified by the Nazi captors. Gripping and sublime, A MAN ESCAPED is a cinematic masterpiece.
Neither Bresson's seemingly odd choice of a past-tense title, nor the fact that the film is based on a real WWII event in which a prisoner successfully escaped a German-run jail in occupied France, lessens the film's impact. As in many of Bresson's films, the protagonist is a possessed individual whose mission sustains him. While he may stubbornly continue planning, the viewer sees the potential hazards he may encounter and feels an incredible sense of tension each time his efforts are stalled.
Bresson inserts a spiritual element into the prisoner's behavior by emphasizing the ritualistic nature of his daily activities, and by showing how group activity and trust are required to resist the evil, personified by the Nazi captors. Gripping and sublime, A MAN ESCAPED is a cinematic masterpiece.
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