Le Procès
(El proceso / The Trial)
(Francia-Italia-RFA, 1962) [B/N, 118 m.]
Género: Drama, Misterio, Thriller.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Orson Welles.
Argumento: Franz Kafka (novela).
Guión: Orson Welles, Pierre Cholot (adaptación, no acreditado).
Fotografía: Edmond Richard (B&W).
Música: Jean Ledrut.
Producción: Michael Salkind, Alexander Salkind.
Productora: A. et M. Salkind (Paris-Europa Productions) / Finanziaria Cinematografica Italiana (FICIT) (Rome) / Hisa-Films (Münich).
Sinopsis: Joseph K., es un oficinista cualquiera que es acusado de un delito sin especificar. Sufre la escalofriante tortura del proceso, en un ambiente alucinante y distorsionado que se parece, sin embargo, a la realidad (Alpacine).
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El personaje de secretaria con picazón entre las piernas fue un seco vuelco en el crecimiento de Romy Schneider como actriz, su punto sin retorno (Ángel Fdez. Santos: El País)
Adaptación de la celebérrima novela de Franz Kafka. Describe las tribulaciones de un pobre oficinista, Joseph K., que es detenido por la policía debido a un crimen terrible que nunca se especifica, y del que K. no tiene ninguna conciencia. Orson Welles atrapa el alucinante y absurdo proceso judicial al que es sometido el protagonista, un Anthony Perkins que dos años antes había saboreado las mieles de la gloria gracias a Psicosis. Destaca la tenebrosa fotografía en blanco y negro de Edmond Richard, que por momentos convierte la película en algo muy próximo a un título de terror.
Assistant de direction dans une gigantesque administration, Joseph K. se voit brusquement notifier un ordre d'arrestation par deux policiers au petit matin. Joseph K. se sait innocent. De quoi peut-on donc l'accuser ? Joseph K. en vient peu à peu à douter de sa propre innocence. Et s'il était coupable ? Sa voisine, Mlle Burstner le chasse alors qu'il voulait se confier à elle et ses collègues de bureau le considèrent déjà comme un criminel condamné. Joseph comparaît devant un tribunal et devant un juge d'instruction dont il dénonce publiquement l'imposture. Il fait appel à un avocat mais ce dernier le terrorise et Joseph K fuit une nouvelle fois après avoir fait de Leni, la compagne de l'avocat, sa maîtresse. Il retourne pourtant chez l'avocat et y surprend Bloch, un vieux client en train de coucher avec la jeune Leni. Le peintre Titorelli que d'étranges liens semblent unir aux juges ne parvient même pas à lui venir en aide. Joseph K se sent perdu et abandonné par tous et il meurt déchiqueté par une explosion de dynamite devant ses deux bourreaux. (Monsieur Cinéma)
AMG SYNOPSIS: Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story in clear, precise fashion. Sometimes, as in such films as Touch of Evil, Welles' spotty storytelling skills can be forgiven in the light of the excellent visuals. In other cases, as in his 1962 adaptation of Kafka's The Trial, Welles'style comes across as empty virtuosity, precious and petulant when it should be profound. Anthony Perkins plays Joseph K, a man condemned for an unnamed crime in an unnamed country. Seeking justice, Joseph K is sucked into a labyrinth of bureaucracy (Welles once described the character as being a "little bureaucrat" himself, who deserves to be punished. This is never clearly expressed in the finished film). Along the way, he becomes involved with three women -- Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli -- who in their own individual ways are functions of the System that persecutes him.
While Welles considered The Trial one of his finest films, this enthusiasm is not universally shared; even his most fervent admirers have been known to emerge from a screening of the film with quizzical, disappointed expressions on their faces. On the plus side, Welles and his cinematographer Edmond Richard perform miracles in transforming an abandoned French railway station into the headquarters of a totalitarian, red tape-ridden society. It's also fun to hear Welles' voice emanating from several of the supporting characters (his post-dubbing budget was nil). All in all, however, The Trial never truly works; it is unfair, however, to lay the blame for this entirely on Welles, inasmuch as the 1948 and 1994 attempts to cinematize the original Kafka novel likewise came a cropper. -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: In this 1962 production, director Orson Welles uses the same black-and-white palette that made him famous in Citizen Kane to paint a surreal portrait of an ordinary man lost in the abyss of a totalitarian legal system. The plot is simple: Police arrest bank clerk Joseph K (Anthony Perkins) but refuse to tell him why. Citizen K then spends the rest of the film trying to exonerate himself. The theme of the film is the individual's powerlessness against the tyranny of a super state -- or any other force over which meager man has no control. The novel on which Welles based the film -- Franz Kafka's 1925 masterpiece Der Prozess (The Trial) -- used that theme to foreshadow the monstrous injustice of the fascist dictatorships of the 1930s. In the film, Welles follows Citizen K on his odyssey through a labyrinthine legal system that calls to mind the nine circles of Dante's Inferno. To intensify Citizen K's alienation, Welles isolates him in cavernous courtrooms and shadowy streets as K attempts to vindicate himself. Though unrelievedly gloomy, the motion picture has moments of off-the-wall humor. Citizen K's lawyer, for example, is Welles himself, a bedridden good-for-nothing whose nurse has webbed fingers. As K pursues justice, one can almost picture Welles behind the camera gleefully prodding his woebegone marionette deeper and deeper into his maze of despair. At the height of his frustration, K runs through a dark corridor with decaying walls admitting slivers of light that prick his sanity. Perkins exhibits the right mix of confusion, vulnerability, and rebellion to present his character as a hapless victim. Because the film sometimes looks more like a Dali painting than a motion picture, many critics dismissed it as trumpery after it debuted. Decades later, however, some critics took a second look at it, concluding that it was a work of genius. The consensus today is that there is no consensus. Depending on the viewer's tastes and perspective, The Trial is either supremely boring or supremely fascinating. -- Mike Cummings
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