Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award4 wins & 3 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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Even the title dispenses with unnecessary frills: A man escaped. What more do you need to know?
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
17 Jan 2012
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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.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
5 Mar 2013
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The prisoner's lonely ardor is enhanced by Mozart's Mass in C Minor; the ending of the movie, as the music wells up, is pure elation.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
5 Mar 2013
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A Man Escaped masterfully constructs the spaces -- physical and mental -- inhabited by Lt. Fontaine (played in a low-key register by an untrained actor, Francois Leterrier).
– Doug Cummings,
L.A. Weekly,
5 Mar 2013
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It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece.