Robert Bresson's spiritualistic prison-escape movie is based on the actual experience of a French Resistance fighter captured by the Nazis, and is shot in the actual setting. You do not get to see much of this place, however, in Bresson's bowed-headed camerawork. What you see best is the hero's hands as he fashions and puts to use his makeshift escape implements, and the movie amounts to, among other things, a glowing tribute to human handicraft. With Francois Leterrier. (1957) — Duncan Shepherd
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