Pickpocket
8,328
Drama. Romance
Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques in favour of returning to pickpocketing (after taking lessons from an expert), because he realises that it's the only way he can express himself.
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United States | The New Yorker | "The movie, above all, affirms the miracle of redemptive love and its price in humility and unconditional surrender." | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "A marvel of poise and circumspect emotion from French auteur Robert Bresson." | POS |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "Robert Bresson made this short electrifying study in 1959; it's one of his greatest and purest films, full of hushed transgression and sudden grace." | POS |
United States | Slant | "Every image in Pickpocket evokes the director's idea of the soul in transition." | POS |
United Kingdom | The Guardian | "It is, at base, about self-fulfilment and redemption through love -- a common enough idea in films. But this 1959 epic has seldom been equalled as a philosophical treatise on the subject." | POS |
United States | The New Yorker | "Bresson choreographs the complex techniques of lifting wallets and watches with such precision that one seems to be watching a kind of surreptitious ballet." | POS |
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