A Man Escaped (U)
Incredibly tense, this is quite simply one of cinema's greatest director's greatest film
Director: Robert Bresson
Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
France, 1956, 1 hour 29 minutes, subtitles
Wed 1 April 2.15pm - The Courtyard Hereford
The key film of Bresson's hugely influential career A Man Escaped is based on the true story of a resistance fighter sentenced to death by the Nazis. This totally involving, thrilling tale of courage and faith follows his meticulous plan for escape. All the more authentic for its use of non-professional actors and his famously spare style, this is Bresson at the height of his very considerable powers. The stunning denouement, to the accompaniment of Mozart's sublime Mass in C Minor, moves the film to a different, spiritually moving plane that cinema very rarely reaches.
"Still unarguably one of the greatest works of cinema"
David Robinson, The Times
"The kind of film which inspires awe, even in an atheist." Time Out
External Links: robert-bresson.com