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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. The film is generally considered to be one of Bresson's greatest films. [1]
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. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
“Martin Lasalle, who plays the part, has a bony, sensitive face, but no deader pan has crossed the screen since Buster Keaton. The besetting fallacy of modern French films and novels is the belief that nullity equals malaise and/or profundity.”
May 31, 2022 · The then non-professional actor Martin LaSalle was cast by Bresson as Michel, a gloomy young man who spends his days writing his journal in a seedy bedsit: a precursor for the prison cell for...
1959. Pickpocket as Michel. Martin LaSalle is known as an Actor. Some of his work includes Pickpocket, Missing, Under Fire, Alucarda, Hot Pursuit, The Mansion of Madness, Acteón, and Alamo Bay.
Directed by Robert Bresson • 1959 • France. Starring Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie. 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.
Martin LASALLE . Feature films . PICKPOCKET . Cannes Classics, 2004Actor. 77thEDITIONMay 14-25, 2024.
