Based on the Franz Kafka novel – Josef K. (Anthony Perkins) is accused of an unspecified crime and shambles through a series of bizarre encounters in an attempt to clear his name in the face of a hellish bureaucracy.

Restored in 4K by Studiocanal and the Cinémathèque Française, with the support of Chanel, from the original 35mm negative at L’image Retrouvée

“AN ASTONISHING WORK, AND A REVELATION OF THE MAN.” — DAVID THOMSON

“ABOVE ALL A VISUAL ACHIEVEMENT,an exuberant use of camera placement and movement and inventive lighting.” — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“A frenzy of Expressionistic images … burst through the screen to evoke an oppressively incomprehensible system of edicts and constraints. And who better to reveal the system’s evil genius than Welles, the golden boy turned Hollywood martyr?” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“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 of expressionist films noirs.” — Paul Taylor, Time Out London