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Film Close-Up presents A Man Escaped (1956)

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Robert Bresson's wartime masterpiece demonstrates the stripped-down technique ubiquitous in his mature filmmaking. The director adapted novelist André Devigny's real-life account of his attempt to escape from the Gestapo, using nonprofessional actors, simple dialogue and a freestyle editing approach to create a film that doggedly follows the protagonist throughout the narrative. While the subject matter may seem like your usual escape-thriller fare, its unconventional composition emphasizes the apparatus of cinema as a dramatic device. Bresson's interpretation of the story adds an individual tone to the POW flick, while simultaneously offering a critique of its own genre.

– Oliver Spall

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