L'ARGENT

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Average: 4.4 (7 votes)
  1. L'ARGENT
  1. 1983, Robert Bresson, France, 85 min.
  2. With Christian Patey, Caroline Lang

"Mind-blowing...L'ARGENT is like HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER recited in iambic pentameter."
—Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

Bresson's final film is one of his most powerful, a hair-raising sermon preached in detail shots, elliptical edits, and offscreen sounds. Based on a short story by Tolstoy, it detail the consequences of the passing of a counterfeit 500-franc note, which sets in motion a chain reaction that destroys the life of an innocent truck-driver and leads to a mysterious and terrifying climax. The precision of Bresson's style has never been more beautiful or functional, and the film's double drive toward damnation and purification is overwhelming. In French with English subtitles. 35mm. (MR)