Diable probablement, Le 1977

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Bresson, as always, holds on to that grace, gives us that beauty. While watching this great rapt film, with its hideous vision of a moral void, we almost can see light flickering in darkness, feel a spirit descending. Read more

Caryn James, New York Times: No other director I can think of has come as close as Bresson to molding his players into what are, in effect, variations on a continuing personality, much the way a painter might. Read more

J. Hoberman, ARTINFO.com: One of the great Robert Bresson's greatest, and least-seen, movies. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Not a masterwork perhaps, but certainly the work of a master, and, judging from the work of many of his young French disciples (including Leos Carax), one of his most influential features. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Both the world and Bresson's cinema are in disarray, and the signs of his inner conflict are deeply troubling and tremendously moving. Read more

Verina Glaessner, Time Out: Its case is presented rather than argued: one buys its cosmic bleakness or one doesn't, but there is no doubt about the conviction with which it is put. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Hold on to something, Bresson implies, or you may fall in love with boredom itself. See it for the mood. Read more