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- The Trial is one of Orson Welles' greatest works. This is a film that superbly translates its important source material to the screen. The cinematography is brilliant, especially the lighting and use of shadows. The set design is gorgeous and the overall atmosphere of paranoia and alienation is wonderfully achieved here.
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Apr 8, 1994 · Franz Kafka’s novel “The Trial” is one of the best stories ever written about the Innocent Man, and all the better because there is a sense that Josef K., its hero, secretly suspects that he must have done something wrong to deserve such cruel treatment from the authorities.
Feb 19, 2017 · However, to all those voices, Welles gave only an answer: “Say what you like, but ‘The Trial’ is the best film I have ever made”. And it is the purpose of this article to state some of the reasons that validate Welles’ opinion as to why “The Trial”, undeniably, still remains one of his best works. 1.
The Trial (French: Le Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: "The Trial is the best film I have ever made". [2]
- Kafka on The screen
- “Somebody Must Have Been Telling Lies About Josef K.”
- Anthony Perkins
- Conclusion: The Trial
The creative lives of Orson Welles and Franz Kafka, share a semblance of similarity. One a filmmaker and the other a writer, they both put out exemplary works of their respective eras. And unfortunately, the full extent of their genius was only appreciated after they passed, as is the story of many great artists. Maybe Welles saw a little of himsel...
Josef K. (Anthony Perkins) awakens to a knock at his door. A man in black enters, beady-eyed and stone-faced. His mind is barely given enough time to adjust to the interloper before a torrent of questions is unleashed upon him. Why do you think this? Why do you think that? Why…? Josef K. nervously stumbles over his answers folding under the torrent...
Anthony Perkins was born to play characters that feel uncomfortable in their own skin. Most renowned for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchc*ck’s thriller masterpiece Psycho, released two years earlier, he brought an energy to The Trialreminiscent to that of Norman Bates but not derivative. He plays Josef K. with a restrained fervor, submissi...
Looking back upon the filmography of Orson Welles, between the epics, the noir thrillers, and the Kafkaesque nightmares, it’s difficult to find a thread of similarity or a certain sense of connectedness between all his films. The only thing that ties them together is how ambitious they all were. Orson Welles always put his art first, ahead of the s...
Sep 20, 2023 · Every woman in The Trial, played by a murderer’s row of European legends, is trying to get into K.’s pants. Most vividly, there’s Romy Schneider’s Leni, who works for the Advocate, her appetite suppressed by his overwhelming and embittered power.
Sep 10, 2012 · The blackest of Welles' comedies, an apocalyptic version of Kafka that renders the grisly farce of K's labyrinthine entrapment in the mechanisms of guilt and responsibility as the most fragmented...
Sep 19, 2023 · A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia.
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