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The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement)

The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement) (1977)

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Average Rating: 9.3/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 771

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In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion but ultimately finds nothing which will change the overwhelming bleakness he feels surrounded by. In this austere movie by director Robert Bresson, the power of the storytelling comes from the lucidity of the imagery captured on film, rather than in

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Art House & International, Drama

Robert Bresson

Mar 18, 1997

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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (2) | DVD (2)

Not a masterwork perhaps, but certainly the work of a master, and, judging from the work of many of his young French disciples (including Leos Carax), one of his most influential features.

March 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Bresson, as always, holds on to that grace, gives us that beauty. While watching this great rapt film, with its hideous vision of a moral void, we almost can see light flickering in darkness, feel a spirit descending.

March 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
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Both the world and Bresson's cinema are in disarray, and the signs of his inner conflict are deeply troubling and tremendously moving.

March 5, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
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Hold on to something, Bresson implies, or you may fall in love with boredom itself. See it for the mood.

April 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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Its case is presented rather than argued: one buys its cosmic bleakness or one doesn't, but there is no doubt about the conviction with which it is put.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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No other director I can think of has come as close as Bresson to molding his players into what are, in effect, variations on a continuing personality, much the way a painter might.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Bresson's second-to-last film is not his bleakest, but it's probably his most plot-heavy, a droll tragedy about a young womanizer who contemplates, as many Bresson heroes and heroines have done before him, an exit strategy.

September 22, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Bears all the hallmarks of Bresson's celebrated restraint, but it also shows its age, so failing to engage that, like its protagonist, you too will (probably) find yourself just wanting it to end.

May 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

Another rigorous -- and unusually watchable -- exercise in cinematic discipline by Bresson, the master of the minimal.

August 28, 2006 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Bresson's most overtly political film.

July 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

If nothing else, there's plenty of conviction in the telling of the grim story.

April 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

I fear the movie has not aged well.

May 3, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

Audience Reviews for The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement)

In "The Devil Probably," the cause of death of a young man is upgraded from suicide to murder. Six months previously, apparently tired of watching films of cute baby seals being clubbed to death, Alberte(Tina Irissari) leaves Michel(Henri de Maublanc) for Charles(Antoine Monnier), despite the latter's lack of a fixed abode, thus risking her relationship with her parents. That's even though Charles is carrying on with Edwige(Laetitia Carcano) who is having other affairs of her own.

"The Devil Probably" does not have a plot in any conventional sense of the word. Rather, it is concerned with some issues that are still relevant to the youth of today, such as the poisoning of the environment. Luckily, nuclear armageddon is no longer such a nightmarish possibility while nuclear waste is still on the table. In this world of possibly no future where religion's influence is on the wane, at least Michael is putting up a fight while Charles just goes around in circles. None of that excuses the flat line readings, especially considering the momentous decisions at stake.
April 26, 2012
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Walter M.

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Let's be honest,few movies have grappled youth's troublesome occasions and personal scales.What forms this veil of coughing smoke is our social filth,the end of it all.Albert puts it in greater holocaust: "revolution will seize to exist".As is revolution ever occurred in the first place....
August 28, 2008
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Dimitris Springer

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