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Narratively spare and told with clockwork precision, Pickpocket is a carefully observed character study that packs an emotional wallop.
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The movie, above all, affirms the miracle of redemptive love and its price in humility and unconditional surrender. March 4, 2019 | Full Review…
The movie, above all, affirms the miracle of redemptive love and its price in humility and unconditional surrender.
Richard Brody
A picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar. March 5, 2013 | Full Review…
A picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar.
It is, at base, about self-fulfilment and redemption through love -- a common enough idea in films. But this 1959 epic has seldom been equalled as a philosophical treatise on the subject. March 5, 2013 | Full Review…
It is, at base, about self-fulfilment and redemption through love -- a common enough idea in films. But this 1959 epic has seldom been equalled as a philosophical treatise on the subject.
Derek Malcolm
Robert Bresson made this short electrifying study in 1959; it's one of his greatest and purest films, full of hushed transgression and sudden grace. March 5, 2013 | Full Review…
Robert Bresson made this short electrifying study in 1959; it's one of his greatest and purest films, full of hushed transgression and sudden grace.
Dave Kehr
Bresson choreographs the complex techniques of lifting wallets and watches with such precision that one seems to be watching a kind of surreptitious ballet. March 5, 2013 | Full Review…
Bresson choreographs the complex techniques of lifting wallets and watches with such precision that one seems to be watching a kind of surreptitious ballet.
David Denby
French director Robert Bresson used his nonactors only once and orchestrated every gesture and glance; the performances that resulted are both mesmerizing and suffused with mystery. February 27, 2007 | Rating: A | Full Review…
French director Robert Bresson used his nonactors only once and orchestrated every gesture and glance; the performances that resulted are both mesmerizing and suffused with mystery.
Edward Karam
[Robert] Bresson always choses the most realistic settings and situations. He makes a great use of two of film's most credible devices: the narration and the printed word. January 23, 2020 | Full Review…
[Robert] Bresson always choses the most realistic settings and situations. He makes a great use of two of film's most credible devices: the narration and the printed word.
Paul Schrader
At first one may be impressed by the mystery surrounding these characters, until one realises that they are only mysterious because they are unable to create their own destinies. January 11, 2020 | Full Review…
At first one may be impressed by the mystery surrounding these characters, until one realises that they are only mysterious because they are unable to create their own destinies.
Eric Rhode
Pickpocket is a film that puts the characters directly into a frame of judgment and asks the viewer if they would really try to understand the character's side of the story. September 25, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Pickpocket is a film that puts the characters directly into a frame of judgment and asks the viewer if they would really try to understand the character's side of the story.
Shikhar Verma
Bresson always tells his story obliquely, so he never lets narrative suspense build, or emotional intensity be foregrounded... In short, a masterpiece. April 25, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Bresson always tells his story obliquely, so he never lets narrative suspense build, or emotional intensity be foregrounded... In short, a masterpiece.
Tony McKibbin
Pickpocket is an intricately staged, truly intimate character study from the imitable Robert Bresson instantly solidifying itself as one of his greatest works. June 1, 2017 | Full Review…
Pickpocket is an intricately staged, truly intimate character study from the imitable Robert Bresson instantly solidifying itself as one of his greatest works.
Tynan Yanaga
... it's the strange quality of non-actor Martin LaSalle that sets the film apart. Is he as dead inside as he appears to the outside world? His criminal existence alienates him from the people he cares about even as he continues to pursue it. October 6, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
... it's the strange quality of non-actor Martin LaSalle that sets the film apart. Is he as dead inside as he appears to the outside world? His criminal existence alienates him from the people he cares about even as he continues to pursue it.
Eric Melin
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