Pickpocket, 1959 (dir. Robert Bresson)
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Pierre Cardin Spring/Summer 1969 Haute Couture Collection. Photo Paul Huf. Model Marika Green.
Pierre Cardin Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Eté 1969. Photo Paul Huf. Mannequin Marika Green.
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Robert Bresson's Pickpocket, 1959
Do you believe in nothing?
I believed in God, Jeanne, for three minutes.
DoP: Léonce-Henri Burel
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'You are not in the real world. You are not interested in anything that interests others. - Jeanne, do you believe that we will be judged?' (Marika Green, Robert Bresson)
JEANNE
“You are not in the real world. You are not interested in anything that interests others.”
MICHEL
“Jeanne, do you believe that we will be judged?”
Robert Bresson, Pickpocket
Marika Green: Jeanne
Martin LaSalle: Michel
"Vous n'êtes pas dans la vie réelle. Vous ne vous intéressez à rien de ce qui intéresse les autres."
"Jeanne, est-ce que vous croyez, vous, que nous serons jugés ?"
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Robert Bresson's 'Pickpocket' – crime and redemption on Criterion Channel
Robert Bresson draws from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” for Pickpocket (France, 1959), his examination of an arrogant young pickpocket who deems himself “above” the laws and conditions of ordinary men.
Michel (Martin Lassalle), a rather bland looking young man with a perpetually blank face, haunts the subways, city streets, and race tracks to ply his trade. He plays a game of wits…
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Marika Green and Martin LaSalle in Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal, Pierre Leymarie, Kassagi, Pierre Étaix, César Gattegno. Screenplay: Robert Bresson. Cinematography: Léonce-Henry Burel. Production design: Pierre Charbonnier. Film editing: Raymond Lamy.
As usual, Robert Bresson casts an unknown actor in the central role of his film Pickpocket. Martin LaSalle, as Michel, the titular thief, has the haunted look of the young Henry Fonda or Montgomery Clift -- a look, incidentally, that Alfred Hitchcock used to great effect when he featured those actors in two of his lesser-known films, Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956) and Clift in I Confess (1953). Pickpocket also contains a justly celebrated sequence demonstrating the thieves at work, a showcase for the work of Bresson's editor, Raymond Lamy. I think my mild dissatisfaction with the film lies in Bresson's imposing his material on the structure of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Like Raskolnikov, Michel lives in a cramped little garret room, meditates on the potential for a man of superior intellect to move beyond good and evil, commits a crime (though picking pockets is a good deal less evil than murdering an old woman) from which he refuses to benefit materially, gets caught, and is redeemed by his love for a "fallen woman," Jeanne (Marika Green), the film's equivalent to Dostoevsky's Sonya. The effect of all this is to make me wish that Bresson had simply decided to film Crime and Punishment. Lurking in the background as well are the existentialist novels of Camus and Sartre, which were much in vogue at the time.
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shaded in some of the other marika sketches I had
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Pierre Cardin Spring/Summer 1969 Haute Couture Collection. Photo Paul Huf. Model Marika Green.
Pierre Cardin Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Eté 1969. Photo Paul Huf. Mannequin Marika Green.
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Robert Bresson's Pickpocket Getting A Blu-Ray Upgrade
Robert Bresson's Pickpocket Getting A Blu-Ray Upgrade
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If you are unable to attend BFI Southbank’s current season Of Sin And Salvation: The Cinema Of Robert Bresson, BFI Distribution will be releasing Pickpocket.
Pickpocket (1959) is one of the most admired, intriguing and influential films by the great French minimalist director Robert Bresson, and next month comes to Blu-ray.
Fans of Bresson films will be excited to know Two further films will be…
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