A Man Escaped

DVD Extras

• Road to Bresson (Leo De Boer & Jurriën Rood, 1984) - documentary by featuring Andrei Tarkovsky, Orson Welles and Paul Schrader.

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Francois Letterier

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I first saw "A Man Escaped" in my Introduction to Cinema Studies course during my first year at university. It immediately became one of the the greatest films I had e... more >

I first saw "A Man Escaped" in my Introduction to Cinema Studies course during my first year at university. It immediately became one of the the greatest films I had ever seen. Over time, my feeling on it has evolved to the point that it is now one of my favorite films as well. The new Artificial Eye DVD is a triumph; the picture is bright and clean, and the all-important sound is clear and crisp.

The documentary 'The Road to Bresson' is worth the price of the DVD alone. A Dutch production (with English subtitles), it examines the work of Bresson with an eye to revealing all that it can about the reclusive director. There is rare footage included of Bresson at Cannes, and a very wonderful surprise at the end.

I cannot sing the praises of Artificial Eye enough...I have posted similar reviews on several sites. If you are a fan of this film, you will not be disappointed. < less

"This is a true story. I tell it exactly as it happened." Robert Bresson introduces this terrific film, inspired by the legendary French soldier Andre Devigny. Devigny... more >

"This is a true story. I tell it exactly as it happened." Robert Bresson introduces this terrific film, inspired by the legendary French soldier Andre Devigny. Devigny was a Resistance fighter imprisoned by the Nazis in 1943 on charges of spying and sabotage. He was meant to have been executed during the summer of that year, but staged a dramatic escape with a fellow inmate from the German Alcatraz at Montluc in Lyons. The late Devigny (he died in 1999) had advised Bresson on his film, and many of the scenes were shot inside the actual prison, including the prisoner's former cell. With a chisel ground from the end of a steel spoon, primitive barbed-wire hooks and rope plaited from cloth, this incredible human being escaped with his life.

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