Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.30pm
This screening is part of the Robert Bresson season at BFI Southbank and is on an extended run at the cinema. You can find all the 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
for Taxi 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 (and above) is the trailer.
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