The Devil Probably Le Diable Probablement... Robert Bresson turned his attention to the politics of the present with this epochal, searing send-up of post-’68 France. Our protagonist is Charles, a young man adrift who tries out a variety of activities to lend meaning to his life: drugs, psychoanalysis, ecology, radical politics…. With surgical precision (and, contrary to his reputation, a sense of humor), Bresson vividly chronicles how Charles and his similarly listless fellow travelers come to know firsthand the emptiness of modern existence, and the question becomes not so much how to cope but rather how to escape. The Devil, Probably is perhaps Bresson’s most explicitly political film, and among the most chilling cinematic portraits of a historical moment.