Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
(A Man Escaped)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Synopsis:
A French resistance fighter painstakingly engineers his escape from Nazi custody.
Review:
Bresson's minutely detailed, almost affectless, portrait of one man's imprisonment and escape is worth comparing with Becker's Le trou. One is a straightforward crime film, with suspense and individual performances to the fore, the other an ascetic case history of one man's fortitude in isolation (based on a true story). Bresson implies that Fontaine (the real-life Devigny) is closest to God, and the subtitle and use of Mozart's Mass in C minor underline the Christian subtext.
(A Man Escaped)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Synopsis:
A French resistance fighter painstakingly engineers his escape from Nazi custody.
Review:
Bresson's minutely detailed, almost affectless, portrait of one man's imprisonment and escape is worth comparing with Becker's Le trou. One is a straightforward crime film, with suspense and individual performances to the fore, the other an ascetic case history of one man's fortitude in isolation (based on a true story). Bresson implies that Fontaine (the real-life Devigny) is closest to God, and the subtitle and use of Mozart's Mass in C minor underline the Christian subtext.
(A Man Escaped)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Synopsis:
A French resistance fighter painstakingly engineers his escape from Nazi custody.
Review:
Bresson's minutely detailed, almost affectless, portrait of one man's imprisonment and escape is worth comparing with Becker's Le trou. One is a straightforward crime film, with suspense and individual performances to the fore, the other an ascetic case history of one man's fortitude in isolation (based on a true story). Bresson implies that Fontaine (the real-life Devigny) is closest to God, and the subtitle and use of Mozart's Mass in C minor underline the Christian subtext.