Pickpocket (1959)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 76m
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie
Synopsis:
An aimless young man, who believes in nothing, steals to finance his meagre existence, eventually joining forces with a brace of professional pickpockets. His steadfast friend, a police inspector and his dying mother's nextdoor neighbour, an attractive young woman, all attempt to steer him away from a course for which he is clearly ill-suited.
Review:
Bresson's take on the dividing line between sin and law-breaking posits a special kind of redemption in the fact that the protagonist, who seems like Raskolnikov to consider himself above the law, finds love with the madonna-like Jeanne in the end. His use of unschooled actors lands us with the Mexican émigré LaSalle, who presumably delivers the vacuous egotism he was looking for. Bresson's characters operate as if in a daze, their deeds incongruously enobled by bursts of J.S. Bach.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 76m
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie
Synopsis:
An aimless young man, who believes in nothing, steals to finance his meagre existence, eventually joining forces with a brace of professional pickpockets. His steadfast friend, a police inspector and his dying mother's nextdoor neighbour, an attractive young woman, all attempt to steer him away from a course for which he is clearly ill-suited.
Review:
Bresson's take on the dividing line between sin and law-breaking posits a special kind of redemption in the fact that the protagonist, who seems like Raskolnikov to consider himself above the law, finds love with the madonna-like Jeanne in the end. His use of unschooled actors lands us with the Mexican émigré LaSalle, who presumably delivers the vacuous egotism he was looking for. Bresson's characters operate as if in a daze, their deeds incongruously enobled by bursts of J.S. Bach.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 76m
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie
Synopsis:
An aimless young man, who believes in nothing, steals to finance his meagre existence, eventually joining forces with a brace of professional pickpockets. His steadfast friend, a police inspector and his dying mother's nextdoor neighbour, an attractive young woman, all attempt to steer him away from a course for which he is clearly ill-suited.
Review:
Bresson's take on the dividing line between sin and law-breaking posits a special kind of redemption in the fact that the protagonist, who seems like Raskolnikov to consider himself above the law, finds love with the madonna-like Jeanne in the end. His use of unschooled actors lands us with the Mexican émigré LaSalle, who presumably delivers the vacuous egotism he was looking for. Bresson's characters operate as if in a daze, their deeds incongruously enobled by bursts of J.S. Bach.