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Pickpocket

  • 19591959
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  • 1h 16m
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7.6/10
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Pickpocket (1959)
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.
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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 p... Read allMichel 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.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.
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    • Robert Bresson
    • Robert Bresson
  • Stars
    • Martin LaSalle
    • Marika Green
    • Jean Pélégri
    • Robert Bresson
    • Robert Bresson
  • Stars
    • Martin LaSalle
    • Marika Green
    • Jean Pélégri
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    • 117Critic reviews
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    Martin LaSalle
    Martin LaSalle
    • Michel
    • (as Martin La Salle)
    Marika Green
    • Jeanne
    Jean Pélégri
    • L'inspecteur principal
    Dolly Scal
    • La mère
    Pierre Leymarie
    • Jacques
    Kassagi
    • 1er complice
    Pierre Étaix
    Pierre Étaix
    • 2ème complice
    César Gattegno
    • Un inspecteur
    Sophie Saint-Just
    • Bit Part
    • (uncredited)
    Dominique Zardi
    Dominique Zardi
    • Un passager du métro
    • (uncredited)
    • …
      • Robert Bresson
      • Robert Bresson
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    • Trivia
      Banned in Finland until 1965 because of its depiction of authentic pickpocketing techniques.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Michel: Oh, Jeanne, to reach you at last, what a strange path I had to take.

    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Suite de symphonies d'Amadis (selection)
      (title uncredited)

      Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (as J.B. Lulli)

      Transcription: Fernand Oubradous (as F. Oubradous)

      Conducted by Marc Lanjean

      Éditions Transatlantiques

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    7/10
    Bresson's films are quite unlike anything else in the cinema...
    In his dismissal determination to keep out elements often thought fundamental to the medium—spectacle, drama, performance— Bresson has followed an incomparable personal vision of the world that stays consistent whatever the nature of his subject matter...

    In "Pickpocket," a petty thief understands life's mystery only when his conventional wisdom is violently shaken and embraces humanity through his newfound love… Most notable, however, is not the emphasis upon redemption attained through communication and self-sacrifice, but the high-purity of Bresson's style...

    The camera keeps out pictorial beauty to create an abstract timeless world through the detached, detailed observation of hands, faces, and objects; natural sounds rather than music to satisfy the need… In thus rejecting conventional realism and characterization, Bresson manifested a fascination not with human psychology but with the capacity of the soul to survive in a world of pain, disbelieve, and restriction...
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      • December 16, 1959 (France)
      • France
      • French
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      • Gare de Lyon, Paris, France
    • Production company
      • Compagnie Cinématographique de France
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    • 1 hour 16 minutes
      • Black and White

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