Pickpocket
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France · 1959
1h 15m
Director Robert Bresson
Starring Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal
Genre Crime, Drama
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Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. Despite the objections of his only friend, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
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the talk of Bresson as a 'transcendentalist" is untrue, the man was a materialist par excellence, life parsed down to essential gesture and tactile feeling