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Director Robert Bresson chose Uruguayan nonactor Martin LaSalle for his leading man in Pickpocket. LaSalle's inexperience works against the film for some viewers, though Bresson himself was satisfied because his star proved himself a quick study in the art of lifting wallets (a genuine pickpocket was engaged as "technical adviser"). Essentially, the story is a character study of a cocky young criminal who becomes so entranced by the act of picking pockets that he literally can't stop himself.
Dec 1, 1959 Wide
Nov 8, 2005
Image Entertainment
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Ultimately inexplicable, this concentrated, elliptical, economical movie is an experience that never loses its strangeness.
Bresson films with a certain gravity, a directness.
Poetic seems too weak a word to sum up Pickpocket's extraordinary arc: that it achieves so much in so short a time (75 minutes) is almost other-worldly.
... sempre fascinante constatar como Bresson, com seu estilo emocionalmente seco e direto e sua insistência em performances rígidas, consegue criar personagens tão complexos e interessantes.
Inspired by Dostoevsky's seminal novel, Bresson's rigorous meditation on crime and redemption is a masterpiece, paying attention to the criminal and the society that created him without ever explaining either; it's only 75 minutes but every frame counts
for those who are willing to give themselves to it, it can be an immensely rewarding experience, as close to transcendental as the cinema could be
A wonderful study of a criminal on the road to redemption.
Hypnotic drama about a Parisian pickpocket.
Bresson examines actions but offers little attention to motives, an approach that here seems to suggest that Michel's choices may be a mystery even to himself.
Bresson's films are the most sublime expression of the powerful, illicit sexuality of the movement of moving pictures against a subjective audience.
I believe Bresson would approve of Criterion's efforts, as all possible interpretations of "Pickpocket" are spread throughout the very special features of this disc.
The hero wrestles with a Dostoyevskian conflict.
Life in 75 minutes.
Every image in Pickpocket evokes the director's idea of the soul in transition.
...the slow-burn of LaSalle's performance may be simplicity itself but it's hard to shake afterward.
Written and directed by acclaimed french film-maker Robert Bresson, Pickpocket is the stark story of an impoverished, would-be writer who takes to a life of crime, partly as a necessity and partly for the simple thrill of it. Michel (Martin LaSalle) rarely evokes much emotion during the course of the film, but his
February 22, 2010Super Reviewer
Beautifully filmed and masterfully accomplished, Bresson's loose version of Crime and Punishment is by far my favourite. I was almost hypnotised during the pickpocket sequences, thank God for pause buttons. I'm sad aren't I?. Anyway, great film but unfortunately the acting is a little wooden but forgivable!
September 30, 2009Super Reviewer
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