Fresh
It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece.
Lawrence O'Toole, Entertainment Weekly
A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson's Prize Winning Film
1956 · 1h 41m · Not Rated
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Robert Bresson
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A Man Escaped
Overview
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
Director and cast
- Robert Bresson Director
- François Leterrier as Fontaine
- Charles Le Clainche as Jost
- Maurice Beerblock as Blanchet
- Roland Monod as Priest of Leiris
- Jacques Ertaud as Orsini
- Jean Paul Delhumeau as Hebrard
- Roger Treherne as Terry
- Jean Philippe Delamarre as Le Prisonnier 110
- Jacques Oerlemans as Chief Warden
- Klaus Detlef Grevenhorst as L'Officier de L'Abwehr
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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
Fresh
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
Fresh
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
Fresh
Even the title dispenses with unnecessary frills: A man escaped. What more do you need to know?
David Fear, Time Out New York
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