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“[The Devil, Probably] is the first time I’ve felt the necessity to express resistance, in the most direct way possible, to everything around me.”

“People have no trouble accepting blood and torture in films (and elsewhere, even). But this is about something primordial that brings us all the way back to the essential question: to be or not to be?” – Robert Bresson

Famously described by musician Richard Hell as “the most punk movie ever made”, Bresson’s penultimate film The Devil, Probably is a searing portrait of post-May 1968 disaffection. Opening with the intentional death of protagonist Charles, the film depicts the months leading up to this event, exploring his engagements with sex, politics, psychoanalysis and the church as he approaches his decision.

Bresson boldly offers Charles’ rejection of society as an open question – or perhaps as a study of questioning the rejection itself. He neither reassures nor condemns, he simply presents a world in which abject cruelty, environmental destruction and moments of great beauty all coalesce. And through Charles, Bresson asks: why, or how, does one continue? A personal, unflinching look into the soul of the modern world.

Please note: this film contains a scene of archival footage of violence against animals.

Ages 15+