A Man Escaped

“I only discovered Robert Bresson recently. This is A Man Escaped. What a genius. I mean, he really invented a new form of cinema. One interesting thing about this is all that I learned on Criterion is that all of the sound was post-synced—everything: sound effects, dialogue. And I didn't even realize, but what it gives you is this kind of incredibly real but also slightly surreal world. Just a stunningly beautiful and tense film.”

“, A Man Escaped. Another favorite film. Love this. It's such a great example of what you can do in one space. It's like the ultimate, you can just play and play and play in one room, one space. Really simple things that just make up the most incredible film.”

“What a feat of a suspense film in which the movie gives away its ending. It's a spoiler alert in the title, yet it still... It tells you exactly what happens and yet the whole time you're like, oh my god, is he going to get away? It's like, yes, he escaped. A Man Escaped.”

“Have you seen A Man Escaped about the guy who tries to escape no who's getting out it's very little very little dialogue at all...”

“I’m going to start with what I think might be my favorite filmmaker: Robert Bresson, whose rhythms and stillness is a little bit like listening to Bach. And A Man Escaped is simply that. It’s somebody who’s in prison and who, bit by bit, using the materials of what’s in his jail cell, escapes from the prison. Think of it metaphorically, think of it in narrative terms, it’s one of The Most Beautiful films you’ll ever see. So in it goes.”