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L'Argent

1983 · 1h 25m · N/A Crime, Drama
Directed by Robert Bresson

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Overview

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

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96%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Bresson, working his sound track as assiduously as his visuals, once again makes us realize how little use most films make of the resources of the cinema. A masterpiece.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

A harrowing scour of ideological cinema.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Fresh

Bresson -- who was eighty-two years old when the film came out, and clearly in no mood for mellowing -- frames the acts of wickedness, both great and small, with a terrifying calm.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh

It's tough but it's also rewarding.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

This is a return to the extremes of crime and punishment that Bresson last used in Pickpocket; and as in that film, crime is a model of redemption and prison a metaphor for the soul.

Time Out

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