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A Man Escaped

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut

1956

Robert Bresson

François Leterrier, Roland Monod, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Jacques Ertaud

8.2

9,259

Drama April 1943, during WWII. Fontaine, a 27 years old young man who is a member of the French Resistance fighting against the nazis, is arrested by the Gestapo in order to be interrogated. Fontaine suspects that he will be executed, so he begins to plan his escape.

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The best of all prison-escape movies"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A lesson in the cinema (...) Few films have seemed more absorbing to me (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"The French film director, Robert Bresson, is an extraordinary artist in his realm. He makes his pictures with patience, simplicity and the uncompromising devotion of a saint."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Bresson's masterpiece is still a pinnacle in French cinema (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Fear Time Out	"Only an artist can take these elements and, having escaped from the tyranny of Hollywood-ish excess, fashion them into a tale of genuine grace under pressure (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Lawrence O'Toole Entertainment Weekly	"It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece."	POS
United States	Jaime N. Christley Slant	"[It] rises above its earthly architecture, in each moment conveying what's within—and what's outside (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"One of the great classics of European art cinema. As usual, Bresson uses non-professional actors and a technique that is utterly hypnotic"	POS

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