A Resistance member (Francois Letterier) is arrested by the
Gestapo, charged with sabotage and sentenced to die, and placed in a
concentration camp in Lyon, where over 7,000 perished during the war. There he
painstakingly sweeps his cell to develop means of escape, meanwhile acting as
an impetus of hope to his fellow prisoners. Robert Bresson’s A Man Escape is an
exacting, inward looking meditation, both beautifully and meticulously shot
while generating quiet and palpable suspense. Nonactor Letterier is tremendous
and reflective as the saintly inmate.
**** out of ****
