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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780024021
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780024028
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 39990
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1960
Editorial Review:
Description:
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Based on the novel by José Giovanni, Jacques Becker's Le Trou (The Hole) balances lyrical humanism with a tense, unshakable air of imminent danger.
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Rating: - The Hole
Jacques Becker's LE TROU is the most detailed prison escape movie you'll ever see.
Because it was made in France in 1960 LE TROU is blessed with a few unique features - some of the prominent actors are amateurs, including Jean Keraudy, who was involved in the 1947 prison break this film depicts. There's no musical scoring of any type. The film is shot in black-and-white, with muted dramatics - the prison officials, guards and wardens, are actually nice enough people. So this is ... Read More
Rating:  - A spare, superbly detailed account of a prison escape doomed to failure...
Becker's interest lies, not in the misery of prison life, but in the unspoken camaraderie and mutual respect that grow between the men as they slowly tunnel their way towards freedom... The setting is claustrophobic but the director's unsentimental observations - he likened himself to an entomologist - grow into a final statement of his enduring faith in human love and dignity...
All too often, Jacques Becker has been regarded as little more than an efficient craftsman... However, his ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent film, with no melodrama, of five men in a French prison determined to break out...and much more than that
To say this is the story of an attempted prison break-out does absolutely no justice to Le Trou, one of the great, subtle films of prison and men working together. Four men share a small cell in France's Santé Prison. There is Roland (Jean Keraudy), accepted by the others as their leader, a taciturn man who plans; Manu (Philippe Leroy), thoughtful but not one to let things slide by; Monseigneur (Raymond Meunier), more easy-going than the others; and Geo (Michel Constantin), who likes to prod and can ... Read More
Rating: - What a film!
You maybe have not heard of French director Jacques Becker (he gets surprisingly little attention) - but if you see this movie you will understand immediateley why he ranks beside Bresson, Melville, and indeed Renoir (whom he worked with) - as one of the most polished and engaging of all French film makers. The film is an escape film - but unlike any other escape film - simply because of the way Becker is able to methodically connect us with the characters of the film - the ending of the film is a complete ... Read More
Rating: - Believe the glowing reviews here
I thought I had seen (or been aware of) every great film made. Then I saw THE HOLE.
If you love WAGES OF FEAR, you'll love LE TROU.
Comparing this masterpiece to other escape movies like THE GREAT ESCAPE (yes, Bresson's is an exception) is like comparing TAXI DRIVER to MANIAC COP 3 (Maltin,...).
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