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Bresson's "A Man Escaped." A man is jailed in Vichy-era France for

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subversive acts against the Nazis. Immediately after being jailed and viciously beaten, he determines to attempt to escape against all odds and realizing the danger: it is a capital offense merely to own a pencil in the prison.
This film has not the feel, tone, or purpose of propaganda. It is taut, riveting, absolutely realistic, and uplifting.
It is every bit as good as "Pickpocket" which is high praise, indeed.
The actor, as in "Pickpocket" doesn't "act" but rather "is."
After seeing this film, one realizes the truth in what the brilliant French intellectual Marguerite Duras said about Bresson: His films are like no others, rising to a level of art no others approach because of the purity of visual language.
This is a perfect film, the rival of "Rules of the Game," and I'd say it's superior because of its lack of artifice.

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RE: Bresson's "A Man Escaped." A man is jailed in Vichy-era France for - patrickU 01:26:23 06/23/07 (4)
Rules of the Game fulled with artifices?
You must mean the artificiallity of the upper class but not the film!
How can you!
RotG is in the same class as " Rosebud* ", Wells immortal tale.

* No other name fit better.
- RoTG: I very much love this film but the acting is so - tinear 04:45:11 06/23/07 (3)
  typical and the characters aren't real. The German servant is, for instance, a caricature, a "type."
  Renoir's characters usually are stereotypes but that doesn't mean their two-dimensionality detracts from his strength: brilliant and intelligent storytelling wedded to a philopsopher's mind.
  - RE: RoTG: I very much love this film but the acting is so - patrickU 04:54:16 06/23/07 (2)
    Well I do find all characters very real, of course some force into a " grotesque " and because of that even more real!
    Now which German servant???
    She was Austrian.
    - The husband of the "loose" maid. Wasn't he "German" or is my - tinear 11:53:06 06/24/07 (1)
      memory tricking me?
      - RE: The husband of the "loose" maid. Wasn't he "German" or is my - patrickU 12:01:34 06/24/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: The husband of the "loose" maid. Wasn't he "German" or is my posted by tinear on June 24, 2007 at 11:53:06
        
        Yes it is. ( tricking you )�Kaufmann was it? But it is an Alsacian name, and trust me he spoke French without any accent.
        Save the one of his terroir, which was not Alsace BTW:

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