| Pickpocket | |
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| Directed by | Robert Bresson |
| Written by | Robert Bresson |
| Produced by | Agnès Delahaie |
| Starring | Martin LaSalle |
| Cinematography | Léonce-Henri Burel |
| Edited by | Raymond Lamy |
| Music by | Jean-Baptiste Lully |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Pickpocket is a 1959 French film written and directed by Robert Bresson. It stars Martin LaSalle, in his feature film debut, in the title role, and features Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie, and Jean Pélégri in supporting roles. It features a pickpocket who is drawn to crime, despite the intercession of his family, his friends, and even an empathetic policeman.
The film is generally considered to be one of Bresson's greatest films. Along with A Gentle Woman and Four Nights of a Dreamer, it is one of three Bresson movies heavily influenced by the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bresson's favorite author.[1] It combines elements of Crime and Punishment's Rodion Raskolnikov (who questions whether moral rules should apply to superior men) with a street-crime plot inspired by Samuel Fuller's film Pickup on South Street (1953).
- ^ Cunneen, Joseph (4 June 2004). "The Films of Robert Bresson: The Mozart of French Cinema". Commonweal Magazine. Retrieved 8 October 2024.