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L'Argent (French pronunciation: [laʁ.ʒɑ̃], meaning "money") is a 1983 French tragedy film written and directed by Robert Bresson. The film is loosely inspired by the first part of Leo Tolstoy 's posthumously published 1911 novella The Forged Coupon .
May 18, 1983 · L'Argent: Directed by Robert Bresson. With Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van den Elsen. A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
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- Crime, Drama
- Robert Bresson
- 1983-05-18
Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L’argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence.
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In Theaters At Home TV Shows. While collecting payment from a Paris photography shop, hard-working fuel delivery man Yvon Targe (Christian Patey) is purposefully given counterfeit money without...
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- Christian Patey
- Robert Bresson
- Crime, Drama
Jul 11, 2017 · L’argent: The Weight of the World. By Adrian Martin. Essays —. Jul 11, 2017. Share. R obert Bresson (1901–99) was not a misunderstood, constantly frustrated artist like Orson Welles; he wasn’t an exiled, persecuted, and repeatedly imprisoned one like Sergei Parajanov; he didn’t die tragically young like Jean Vigo.
Jul 10, 2017 · Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L’argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence. With brutal economy, Bresson constructs his ...
L'argent. Directed by Robert Bresson • 1983 • France, Switzerland. Starring Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang. In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency.
