Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 26, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Francois Leterrier attemtps to bust out of a Nazi prison in A Man Escaped.
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson (The Devil, Probably) made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in his 1956 drama-thriller A Man Escaped.
Based on the memoirs of imprisoned French resistance leader Andre Devigny, the movie follows a French activist named Fontaine (Francois Leterrier), who has been imprisoned by the Nazis during the war and devotes his every waking hour to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death and given a new cellmate. Should Andre kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?
Bresson’s film details the planning and carrying out of the escape with gripping precision. But the filmmaker isn’t only interested in the process, as the film also achieves a layer of sublime spirituality and humanity.
Presented in French with English subtitles, the Criterion DVD and Blu-ray of A Man Escaped include the following features:
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Bresson: Without a Trace, a 1965 episode of the television program Cinéastes de notre temps in which the director gives his first on-camera interview
• The Essence of Forms, a forty-five-minute documentary from 2010 in which some of Bresson’s collaborators and admirers, including actor François Leterrier and director Bruno Dumont, share their thoughts about the director and his work
• New visual essay with text by film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Tony Pipolo
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