Pickpocket
1959, NR, 75 min. Directed by Robert Bresson. Starring Pierre Leymarie, Martin Lasalle, Jean Pelegri, Marika Green.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Wed., Aug. 30, 2000
Obliquely based on Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Pickpocket tells the story of a Parisian thief who suffers a sort of crisis of the soul. He becomes bewildered by his actions, which are performed as an extension of his Nietzschean philosophical beliefs. Picking pockets is an expression of his will, and prison represents a cubicle of the soul. Salvation lies in the simplest of human gestures.
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Pickpocket, Robert Bresson, Pierre Leymarie, Martin Lasalle, Jean Pelegri, Marika Green
