Pickpocket

About the movie

Michel goes to a horse race to make some easy money. Though for a simple pickpocket like Michel, the easy money doesn’t come from horse-betting. On his way from the tracks he is, however, arrested. And as we know, when once fallen in to crime the way back is a tough one. Pickpocket deals with a man who struggles with balancing his thiefdom with his personal life, involving family, love and loss. Robert Bresson was one of the favorites of Cahiers du cinema and regarded as one of the first auteurs in European film history. His colleague Jean-Luc Godard once stated that “Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is the German music.”

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