The Devil, Probably

A radical film about a teenager who neither wants to live nor explain his unwillingness to do so.

He doesn’t rebel — he simply refuses. He doesn’t believe in revolutions, despises work, and wants to be with no one. Bresson presents a very young man who seems to have already understood everything he was supposed to — and has frozen in despair. What we see is a film of refusal: refusal of morality, of the system, of salvation. Dry, meditative, impenetrable — The Devil, Probably, like its protagonist, severs the links between action and explanation, between desire and deed.

Winner of three Silver Bears, including the Special Jury Prize.