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Bookmark this pageLibera Me (1993)
Director: Alain Cavalier
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An elegant, original and just occasionally irritating oddity, this film - from the director of Thérèse - consists entirely of wordless, enigmatic tableaux (many of them close-ups of faces, hands and objects). These slowly coalesce into an elliptical narrative about the spirit of resistance in an authoritarian state given over to imprisonment and torture. It looks, as one might expect, marvellous (though one can't help thinking that it rather aestheticises cruelty), and in the end it's Bressonian, in its focus on essentials, rather than gimmicky. Unlike Bresson's best, however, it remains rather soulless.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Alain Cavalier
Producer: René Fauvél
Cast: Annick Concha, Pierre Concha, Thierry Labelle, Christophe Turrier full cast
Duration: 107 mins
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