Review of L'Argent (1983) by Alex H — 26 Mar 2012
I remember having really enjoyed Pickpocket, probably because I'd just read Crime and Punishment and loved it, and was eager to get at more Bresson. I love the idea behind using nonprofessional actors and "stripping them down" the way he does, but in practice here it makes for unbearably stiff performances that are just hard to watch.
And the hyper-minimalist script doesn't help. And I usually love plain production and transparent acting. Bresson may have had some arty ambition of distilling away the artifice to reveal some highfalutin truth, but in the end I think he overcorrected, because it feels pretentiously artificial to the core.
About as flavorless a movie as I've ever seen. No thank.
This review of L'Argent (1983) was written by Alex H on 26 Mar 2012.
L'Argent has generally received very positive reviews.
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