Anjum Muneer
Claude Gaspard is the newest inmate to the prison and gets befriended with other four prisoners in the cell. Firstly he used to live in other block, then he was transferred. He was accused of attempted first degree murder, charged by his wife. So, the total five prisoners try hard their best to become escapists. At last, when their way of escape accomplishes, Claude Gaspard is escorted to the warden and there he's told that his wife lifted the charges against him, however the court finds it difficult to believe in the allegation made by his wife. Now he's free to go and he will make it with the other inmates except Geo. When they are ready to escape from the jail, they get caught red handed. Claude Gaspard was then transferred to a new block and you would feel sorry for him as Ronald says 'Poor Gaspard'. The hardship of their works to escape from the prison will get any spectator on nerves to the deepest. This movie will engage you utterly to the core and you will be in a state of 'nail-biting' and wondering what will happen next or will they be successful in their work?
DonAlberto
Le Trou (The hole)by french director Jacques Becquer is a masterpiece like few others. Becquer is one of those guys who has the ability to tell you a story and make you feel part of it. That alone is far from being considered a "spark of genius" but it undoubtedly helps pave the way for a film such as Le Trou, a classic of the genre.It's the story of a group of inmates which are planning the escape of the prison. One day, a new one arrives and quickly is drawn into the plan. From that point on, this slow-paced film shows us the life in prison, quite different from what you'd expect after binging on American TV shows for years, and the psychological dimension of the life in prison. Every single detail of their plan is paid attention to. Rightly so because with every step forward they get closer and closer to the world outside the barred windows while, at the same time, keeps us interested in the film as it seems there's always something going on.Towards the end of the movie there's a couple of scenes that after so much build up make the plot "explode" but I won't be spoiling them here. I highly recommend you watch the film. You won't regret it.
Richard Chatten
It was bold indeed of Jacques Becker to make another prison escape film so soon after Robert Bresson had created the genre's masterpiece, 'Un condamné à mort s'est échappé' (1956); but the gamble paid off handsomely.Like Robert Rossen's 'Lilith' (1964), 'La Trou' seen in isolation looks more like the debut of an exciting new talent than the valediction of a veteran in his fifties about to be taken before his time. Released shortly after Becker had died of a heart attack aged just 53, when confronted with such a fresh, modern-looking piece of filmmaking one is vexed by the question of where Becker would have gone next, which we shall never know. The film remains unusual for its lack of a music score (composer Philippe Arthuys, significantly, is actually credited at the end with 'Illustration sonore'), and I can even forgive this film for setting a deplorable precedent by being possibly the first to have no credits at the start; they all come at the end, to the accompaniment of a simple piano arrangement of Rubinstein's 'Melody in F' which may have been intended as discrete mockery on Becker's part of the grandiose use of Mozart's 'Mass in C Minor' at the conclusion of Bresson's film.Jean Keraudy, a veteran of the original escape, segues smoothly into the uniformly excellent cast; while among the staff, Jean-Paul Coquelin has a beguiling air of dry good humour in his scenes as the cell block lieutenant.
philcold2-614-250707
My son was 14 years old when he saw that movie for the first time. That was 2 years ago, in 2010, so this film had 50 years when he saw it. I tell everybody I can, that this movie became one of my son's favorites, and I tell this because I consider important, so far, that people do not think that today's cinema is the best and the only one that young people can like, but that youth have lots of old movies to discover, lots of good moments to share with adults and with other young people, discovering many movies which were made without special effects, without high budgets, but with good "savoir-faire", great ideas, good actors and a big dose of love for the cinema. How many moments is losing today's youth with video-games and stupid teenager movies, when they have a great treasure to discover in such old movies.Since then, my son is ready to see the old movies which I propose to him, being sure he will have a good time that will remain etched in his memory.
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