A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)

This is Bresson at his best. Basically it's a prison film, where the main character gets wrongfully put in prison. It's stunningly filmed in the Bresson style, which I love. A lot of collage-like set up – a hand followed by a foot – a very deliberate filming style to build up the action. Lots of slow close-ups. It's a classic. I think I first saw it on DVD when I started catching up on a lot of films and different directors, so Bresson and Bergman and Tarkovsky and all those guys. It's quite hard to see a lot of those films in the cinema so I just projected them.