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Directed by: Robert Bresson
Featuring: Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Didier Baussy, Marc Ernest Fourneau
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.
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DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Press Conference, Video Essay, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
- "L’argent," A to Z, a new video essay by film scholar James Quandt
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment
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