L'argent (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 11, 2017
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Christian Patey | |
Directed by | Robert Bresson | |
Edited by | Jean-François Naudon | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Bresson | |
Director of Photography: | Pasqualino De Santis & Emmanuel Machuel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A less precious parable than Au Hasard Balthazar...
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LarsenOnFilm
L'Argent is one of the most damning litanies of human evil one may encounter. It's also one of the better films.
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CraveOnline
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t portrays a greed-obsessed society on the verge of the Great Crash of 1929....Pianist Jean-Francois Zygel contributes a powerful score...
Total Film
This is a return to the extremes of crime and punishment that Bresson last used in Pickpocket; and as in that film, crime is a model of redemption and prison a metaphor for the soul.
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Time Out
Its pleasures are the classic pleasures of the art film -- niceties of technique, juxtapositions of image and sound, a judiciousness in choosing what is shown, and what isn't.
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Washington Post
Bresson is not often noted for his engagement with social issues, but in fact his films consistently address the physical and spiritual effects of poverty and crime.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
A harrowing scour of ideological cinema.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
Robert Bresson won a Best Director Award at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Grand Prize for Creation, for this contemporary revision of Leo Tolstoy's short story. The tragedy tells of how an innocent prank goes wrong and becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. When a young man passes a forged 500-franc note at a photography shop, the photographer passes it along to an unsuspecting victim. It eventually lands in the hands of Yvon Targe (Christian Patey), an innocent man who is detained when he tries to use it to pay for a meal. Hiring an attorney to hopefully bring the truth to light, Yvon is shocked to discover that the photographer will not budge from his story. To make matters even worse, he has goaded his assistant into lying along with him. This causes Yvon to lose his job and self-respect, triggering a downward spiral that results in a murder. Bresson's final film is a haunting commentary that condemns materialism and its sinful offspring, exploring universal themes that only continue to grow in importance in modern society. Proving that not all filmmakers weaken as they age, L'ARGENT remains as profound a work of art as the director's early masterpiece, A MAN ESCAPED.
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- Sales Rank: 76,979
- UPC: 715515201117
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