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By Cristóbal G (9) on 10 Oct 2013

Alas, this is only the first movie I've seen by the famed Robert Bresson, an early inspiration to the French New Wave…

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By Ryan G (1,232) on 15 Sep 2013

Really amazing camerawork and a great score…

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By Mohammed Ammar A (53) on 20 Jul 2013

Comprehensive study. low budget. quirk flow. fantastic…

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By Four Star F (259) on 18 Apr 2013

Pickpocket is the glorious story of a pickpocket in the world inhabited by other grifters. It is a very memorable tale…

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By Michael W (3,003) on 31 Mar 2013

The acting is about as wooden as it gets, but somehow Bresson makes that work…

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By Blake P (935) on 25 Mar 2013

Pickpocket is an excellent little film (clocking just under 75 minutes) that summarizes the transition from classic to modern filmmaking with…

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By Dan Jardine (362) for Cinemania (170) on 21 Mar 2013

Pragmatic to the point of being almost mechanical, Pickpocket it is paradoxically saturated with soulfulness…

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By David Parkinson (764) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 05 Mar 2013

A marvel of poise and circumspect emotion from French auteur Robert Bresson…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for Guardian (4,584) on 05 Mar 2013

It is, at base, about self-fulfilment and redemption through love -- a common enough idea in films…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Mar 2013

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…

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By Oliver E (195) on 23 Feb 2013

It's really easy to dislike this film, because of the protagonists apathy and misery directed toward the people around him, but most of all…

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By Chandradeep D (4) on 17 Feb 2013

Has there been any other film which has shown love as pure as this one has…

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By Dave M (1,479) on 11 Feb 2013

Yes, the actual picking of pocket scenes are terrifically filmed in a ballet of slights and sights…

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By Maxwell S (250) on 08 Dec 2012

Bresson, one of cinema's purest geniuses has made one of his most accomplished films…

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By Jennifer T (990) on 08 Dec 2012

I liked the opening scene when he pickpockets the woman at the racetrack but other than that it was really boring…

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By Benjamin W (694) on 02 Jul 2012

A film of hands, fate and the movement towards grace…

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By Martin N (176) on 27 Jun 2012

I honestly don't understand the fuss. All of his movies is the same and unfortunately he is not repeating anything worth while either…

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By Nick M (1,532) on 13 Jun 2012

Pickpocket is a fertile example of international cinema. The motives of the protagonist are not easily explained or defendable…

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By Steve M (1,420) on 26 May 2012

Robert Bresson is one of those directors whom you can never get confused with another director for how distinct their films are…

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By X X (227) on 23 Apr 2012

Some of the greatest directors - Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick among them - have said cinema is about the human face…

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