Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
Acting
Mailfort's maddening, magnetic stillness as Bartleby.
Direction
Ronet traps you in claustrophobic office corridors forever.
Writing
Melville's dialogue untouched—devastating in its repetition.
Director
Maurice Ronet
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