Capital Celluloid 2012 - Day 345: Mon Dec 10

Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.10pm
This is screening as part of the BFI's excellent Passport to Cinema season and is introduced by Philip Kemp. Details here.

Chicago Reader 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. A petty thief (Martin Lasalle) becomes addicted to the art and thrill of picking pockets. He loses his friends and fiancee, and begins to live like a monk, concentrating his entire being on his obsessional, increasingly devotional acts of theft. If the film seems familiar, that's because Paul Schrader recycled great chunks of it in his scripts forTaxi Driver, American Gigolo, and Raging Bull. But the original retains its awesome, austere power. With Pierre Leymarie and Marika Green. In French with subtitles.'
Dave Kehr

Here is the trailer.

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