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Audio Format: DD 1.0 Mono Video Format: Standard 1.33:1 Languages: French Subtitles: English Region Code: 1 Year Made: 1959 Running Time: 75
Robert Bresson masterful investigation of crime and redemption tells the story of the young, arrogant Michel (Martin LaSalle), who spends his days learning the art of picking pockets in the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris.
As Michel grows bolder and more adept, so too grows his fear that his luck is about to run out. But despite the pleadings of his sick mother and the lovely Jeanne to return to the world of the honorable, he is consumed by his compulsion to steal. Tautly choreographed and stylistically rigorous, Pickpocket reveals Bresson at his enigmatic, virtuosic best.
Special Features:
- Audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt
- New video introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader
- The Models of Pickpocket, a 2003 documentary by filmmaker Babette Mangolte, featuring actors from the film
- A 1960 interview with Bresson, from the French television program Cin?anorama
- Q&A on Pickpocket, with actress Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Am?is fielding questions at a 2000 screening of the film
- Footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux ?oiles Original theatrical trailer
- New essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana
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