L'Argent Blu-Ray
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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1983
Director: Robert Bresson
Genre: Drama
Cast: Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Didier Baussy, Marc Ernest Fourneau
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Language: French
Release Date: 2017-11-07
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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. 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 unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.