Pickpocket

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Audience Member Bresson is revered for hiring non actors, but unlike the master De Sica who also often worked with non actors, Bresson can not properly direct them to get actual performances. The lead performance by Salle is laughably terrible, with lines delivered like an elementary school student practicing a stage play. This film is an overrated exercise in style. It has its moments, but feels like a student film. Bresson is only at his best when the actors can act with no direction. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/21/24 Full Review Audience Member I love French films but I couldn't connect with this one at all. The lead character is extremely boring and the story a little pointless. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/27/24 Full Review Andy F Engrossing and atmospheric but perhaps a tad overrated. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/15/23 Full Review dave s There is no mistaking Pickpocket for anything other than a Robert Bresson film. Clocking in at a scant seventy-five minutes, it is as clean and as crisp a movie as one could imagine, devoid of anything that even hints at being extraneous or irrelevant. Michel (Martin LaSalle) is adrift in life, unemployed and directionless, ultimately honing his dexterity to become a pickpocket. It is an incredibly simple story about redemption and the motivating influence of unrequited love, but the simplicity, as with all Bresson films, is what gives it its beauty. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review noel d I am not sure if this film was restored, or even needed restoration. The black and white print is immaculate and the soundscape is perfection. You feel as though you're in Paris in 1959. It has a documentary feel to it and, if my bad French is correct, in the captions at the start it thanks a person (one word name so presumably it's a nom-de-plume, so to speak) who advised on the pickpocket techniques shown throughout the story. The actor playing the eponymous role does not emote very much and it is the intensity of his expression that draws him to the audience. He's a thief through and through but he still gets some sympathy. He's given chances to reform by a detective who displays a similar sympathy but justice wins in the end. Without spoiling the ending, it is only by failing that he achieves his redemption through the love of a woman. Well worth your time. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Fra B With Bresson, one of the most essential filmmakers, you'll find beauty and elegance in sequences of pickpocketing, but in dialogue and emotions he doesn't force you to feel anything, rather it's up to you to connect the dots. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/10/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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