L'Argent Reviews
Filmcritic.com
It's cold and clinical, and more than a little depressing.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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.
Movie Gazette
blank in style and bleak in message... Yet like money itself, the value of L'Argent is no more or less than what one is willing to give it.
Combustible Celluloid
As others have pointed out, it does not feel like the work of a man in his 80s.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film4
This unique and meticulous work of art makes a fitting swansong for a cinematic genius.
Spirituality and Practice
Based on a novella by Tolstoy, this French film offers an elegant study of money.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A powerful and harrowing film that renews one's faith that modern cinema can bring to light what no other medium can do in the same way.
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| Original Score: A+
MovieMartyr.com
The ending, most of all, shows Bresson's ability to find an alternate route to grace, given the circumstances.
Reeling Reviews
...we can see Bresson's influence on Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, Yvon's curtly procedural trial and subsequent acts a precursor to "A Short Film About Killing."
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| Original Score: B+
Top CriticA harrowing scour of ideological cinema.
Filmjourney
L'Argent showcases the filmmaker at the height of his formal ingenuity, particularly his use of narrative ellipses and fragmented space (close-ups of legs, hands, objects).
Classic Film and Television
Harrowing crime film about the persecution of a working class man by the rich.
Film and Felt
Bresson's obsessive leg and arm shots force us to use our imaginations; there are no eyes to tell us what the characters are feeling.
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| Original Score: 92/100
Bresson -- who was eighty-two years old when the film came out, and clearly in no mood for mellowing -- frames the acts of wickedness, both great and small, with a terrifying calm.
Senses of Cinema
Sacred cause and action is outside of reason, this is one of its sacred aspects, and will always remain mysterious. In Bresson's world we are fallen too.
Austin Chronicle
Many critics regard it as the very best film of the Eighties.
