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Pickpocket is a 1959 French film written and directed by Robert Bresson. It stars Martin LaSalle , who was a nonprofessional actor at the time, in the title role, and features Marika Green , Pierre Leymarie, and Jean Pélégri in supporting roles.
Pickpocket: Directed by Robert Bresson. With Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal. Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police.
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- Crime, Drama
- Robert Bresson
- 1959-12-16
Jul 6, 1997 · “Pickpocket” is about a man who deliberately and self-consciously tries to operate outside morality (“Will we be judged? By what law?”). Like many criminals, he does it for two conflicting reasons: because he thinks he is better than others, and because--fearing he is worse--he seeks punishment.
New trailer for Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959) - in cinemas from 3 June 2022 | BFI. One of Robert Bresson’s most admired, intriguing and influential films, experience Pickpocket...
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- BFI
Pickpocket. This incomparable story of crime and redemption from the French master Robert Bresson follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris.
- Michel
Jul 15, 2014 · Pickpocket: Robert Bresson: Hidden in Plain Sight. I have an unusually easy way of remembering when I first became fascinated by Robert Bresson’s films. Pickpocket (1959) was the first one I saw, at the old Orson Welles theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in my late teens; it was also the first movie I saw on LSD.
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Overview. Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft.
