Welles called it "the most autobiographical movie that I've ever made, the only one that's really close to me. It's much closer to my own feelings about everything than any other picture I've ever made." He put all of himself into The Trial: not just his visual and aural brilliance and his love of astonishment, but also his humor, anger, eroticism, and tenderness. Joseph K is Anthony Perkins's other great role: he's warm, responsive, and complete in this performance, which is the more deeply pleasurable because the world Welles builds around him (shooting in Zagreb and in Paris's Gare d'Orsay) is so terrifying and sad. And every movie should have Albinoni's Adagio on the soundtrack. The Trial is an amazingly rich and complex film, but it can be appreciated simply, as an opening-up of life as mystery, crisis, and dream.