Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut 1956

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: This is not the sort of picture that one should view without knowing what it is. The strain is hard and the reward is limited. But it is a fine reflection of a cruel experience. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Even the title dispenses with unnecessary frills: A man escaped. What more do you need to know? Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The best of all prison-escape movies, it reconstructs the very notion of freedom through offscreen sounds and defines salvation in terms of painstakingly patient and meticulous effort. Read more

Lawrence O'Toole, Entertainment Weekly: It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece. Read more

Doug Cummings, L.A. Weekly: A Man Escaped masterfully constructs the spaces -- physical and mental -- inhabited by Lt. Fontaine (played in a low-key register by an untrained actor, Francois Leterrier). Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: The prisoner's lonely ardor is enhanced by Mozart's Mass in C Minor; the ending of the movie, as the music wells up, is pure elation. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Watching a film like A Man Escaped"is like a lesson in the cinema. It teaches by demonstration all the sorts of things that are not necessary in a movie. By implication, it suggests most of the things we're accustomed to are superfluous. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: The kind of film which inspires awe, even in an atheist. Read more