Pickpocket

Pickpocket

  • Director: Robert Bresson
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French
  • Release date: December 16, 1959
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Dzeparos
  • "Pickpocket" is a crime film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Martin LaSalle and Marika Green .
    The film presents the story of a thief Michelle wandering the Paris subway and streets in the form of a diary.

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    Details

    • Release date December 16, 1959
    • Filming locations Gare de Lyon, Paris, France
    • Production companies Compagnie Cinématographique de France

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $7,541

    Movie reviews

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    • By Dewayne 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      Happy pickpocket prodigal son turns back

      At the end of the college dog, reviewing the history of Chinese film every day is not boring. My boyfriend recommended this film, black and white picture quality, spiritual world, masterpiece.

      A thief's mental journey, nihilism, that a perfect steal is performance art. Later, the accomplice was arrested and could not hold hands with the beloved woman. After two years of indulging life abroad, when I came back again, the room was still there, Jenny was still there, and there were more...

    • By Luigi 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      The meaning of life is the eternal motif

      I don't know if it was adapted from "Crime and Punishment". When watching the film, I felt as absurd and profound as Camus' "The Outsider", but the ending was much better than Meursault's fate. The protagonist sighed in the film: What a strange detour he took to be with the heroine. He finally went around and realized the meaning of life, and it was bitter and sweet to be with the person he loved. The cinematography is exquisite, and the dialogue and acting are very simple. The protagonist...

    • By Holden 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      What a strange road I took to be with you

      Fascinated. My three favorite scenes: the theft at the racetrack, the multiple theft at the train station, and the kiss across the fence in the prison. There is basically no expression on the faces of each character throughout the film, but they can feel their inner emotions and fluctuations. Just like when reading a diary in reality, all you see is the cold words, and then follow the words to explore the stories in the words, and then feel the emotions in the stories. With very little...

    • By Alisha 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      Seeing Bresson for the first time

      It's a movie under an hour and a half, it's a "no acting" movie, and it's the first time I've ever seen a movie with a completely deadpan cast look so good.


      Two years ago, I saw Hou Hsiao-hsien mentioned Bresson in "Hou Hsiao-hsien's Film Lectures". Recently, in "Jia Xiang", I also saw that Jia Zhangke said that he liked Bresson and liked "The Pickpocket" the most. This is the reason for watching "The Pickpocket".


      Expressionless, the dialogue is few and short, and...

    • By Royce 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      In addition to affecting the audience, it also affects the director!

      I have seen the film history is a documentary exploring the development of film history. The movie about pickpockets was mentioned in the new wave era, and I felt it! There should be no highs or lows in the era, but in that era there was a "Pickpocket", which not only affected the audience, but also affected many contemporary writers and directors such as Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver"! And still infect the younger generation who are interested in light and...

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    • By Rosie 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      The 10th Berlin Film Festival's main competition unit was shortlisted for fingertip ballet. Under the lens of Bresson, even stealing is so...

    • By Ashleigh 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      March 2012 @Studio Rewatch; alienated like an outsider, rhythm like a prose...

    • By Mabelle 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      1. Too many lines. 2. The minimalism that is deliberately arranged and arranged is not really simple, but extremely complicated. Too simple is too much, and too much is too much. 3. In the same way, deliberately taking off the expression and being expressionless is an expression in itself: an artificial, artificial, and unreasonable expression. 4. There should be no expression where there should be expressions, and there should be expressions where there should be no expressions. 5....

    • By Hester 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      Wandering because of nothingness, nothingness because of not arriving, not arriving because time has not come, until the last...

    • By Aryanna 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      If this film can only support his classics with a lot of technical terms and shooting skills, then I may just stop at the feeling and resonance generated by the...

    Movie plot

    Bresson, the master of concise school, presented a three-pointed humanity sketch: Michel, a thief wandering in the subway and streets of Paris.
    Naturally, he is by no means an ordinary thief, the prototype comes from " преступление и наказание " by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky . In his small attic, he read a lot of books. Deeply influenced by Nihilism and Nietzsche's Overman philosophy , his deep narcissism wraps him like a blanket,...
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    Background creation

    Robert Bresson is to French film what Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart is to Austrian music, and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is to Russian literature.
    "Pickpocket" (Pickpocket, 1959), filmed by Robert Bresson more than 40 years ago, has been regarded by film critics as the "most contemporary film". His own death at the end of 1999 once froze the hearts of filmmakers all over the world. People were sad that "the...
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    It takes a little courage to write Robert Bresson

    First, Bresson is not a film master well-known to the majority of movie fans. Many celebrities only hear his name and do not see his movies. This is also foreseeable. For most people, a master like Bresson is always It means a good sleep while watching movies. But Bresson is the idol of many famous artists in the film industry. Among them, the most famous comment on him is Jean-Luc Godard: "Bresson is to French movies, just as Johannes...
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    Movie quotes

    • [last lines]

      Michel: Oh, Jeanne, to reach you at last, what a strange path I had to take.

    • [first lines]

      Michel: I know those who've done these things usually keep quiet, and those who talk haven't done them. Yet I have done them.

    • Jacques: Could one turn a blind eye to certain kinds of theft?