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A Man Escaped is blockbuster Bresson, a well-acted POW drama that builds with subtle, seat-gripping tension.
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Bresson's [film] is both the most realistic and the most poetic of jailbreak films. February 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Bresson's [film] is both the most realistic and the most poetic of jailbreak films.
Michael Wilmington
It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece. March 5, 2013 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece.
Lawrence O'Toole
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. March 5, 2013 | Full Review…
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
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. March 5, 2013 | Full Review…
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
Even the title dispenses with unnecessary frills: A man escaped. What more do you need to know? January 17, 2012 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Even the title dispenses with unnecessary frills: A man escaped. What more do you need to know?
David Fear
Watching a film like A Man Escaped"is like a lesson in the cinema. It teaches by demonstration all the sorts of things that are not necessary in a movie. By implication, it suggests most of the things we're accustomed to are superfluous. November 24, 2011 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Watching a film like A Man Escaped"is like a lesson in the cinema. It teaches by demonstration all the sorts of things that are not necessary in a movie. By implication, it suggests most of the things we're accustomed to are superfluous.
Roger Ebert
A powerful French film focuses on the eternally fascinating theme of escape from prison. It's classic in outline, though set in the ugliest period of modern times. October 26, 2020 | Full Review…
A powerful French film focuses on the eternally fascinating theme of escape from prison. It's classic in outline, though set in the ugliest period of modern times.
Janet Graves
Since we never get aware of Fontaine's motivation; the only reason becomes to 'revolt against the system in place.' This makes A Man Escaped a transcendental prison drama that stands way beyond the comprehension of generic prison-escape films. September 25, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Since we never get aware of Fontaine's motivation; the only reason becomes to 'revolt against the system in place.' This makes A Man Escaped a transcendental prison drama that stands way beyond the comprehension of generic prison-escape films.
Shikhar Verma
Without a doubt one of the greatest films ever made, a film both thrilling and meditative, that should serve as a textbook for modern filmmakers on how to create and sustain suspense. August 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Without a doubt one of the greatest films ever made, a film both thrilling and meditative, that should serve as a textbook for modern filmmakers on how to create and sustain suspense.
Matthew Lucas
It's coolly comforting to recall how the innocence that lay shattered in the wake of World War II wasn't America's alone - just as it's heartening to rediscover the improbable beauty within the bleak scenario of A Man Escaped. January 1, 2016 | Full Review…
It's coolly comforting to recall how the innocence that lay shattered in the wake of World War II wasn't America's alone - just as it's heartening to rediscover the improbable beauty within the bleak scenario of A Man Escaped.
Jonathan Kiefer
Robert Bresson's story of an imprisoned and condemned French Resistance fighter who plans an escape with his teenage cellmate is one of the great classics of European art cinema. June 3, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Robert Bresson's story of an imprisoned and condemned French Resistance fighter who plans an escape with his teenage cellmate is one of the great classics of European art cinema.
Adrian Turner
Not just the greatest prison escape film ever made, it is one of the greatest films of any kind ever made. And the coolest thing is, Bresson would get even better. May 22, 2013 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
Not just the greatest prison escape film ever made, it is one of the greatest films of any kind ever made. And the coolest thing is, Bresson would get even better.
Christopher Long
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