Longing for Sacrifice in “The Devil, Probably” by R. Bresson

This article uses R. Bresson’s film “The Devil, Probably’’ as a case study of a ritual crisis in the consumer society, The researcher looks into the main aspects of the ritual crisis – absence of collective mythology and ritual, loss of connection with the sacred and inability to form a community – through focusing on a character whose goal is to restore connection with the sacred via ceremonial self-sacrifice. As a result, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the protagonist of the film fails in his attempt, and his striving for martyrdom through ritual self-sacrifice turns out to be just a plain murder.