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Pickpocket
1959 75m Not Rated
Crime
,
Drama
7.6
93%
85%
73%
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Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
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Directed By
Robert Bresson
Written By
Robert Bresson
Studio
Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
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Cast of Pickpocket
Martin LaSalle
Michel
Marika Green
Jeanne
Jean Pélégri
L'inspecteur principal
Dolly Scal
La mère
Pierre Leymarie
Jacques
Pierre Étaix
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Kassagi
1er complice
César Gattegno
Un inspecteur
Sophie Saint-Just
Dominique Zardi
Pickpocket Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Edward Karam
French director Robert Bresson used his nonactors only once and orchestrated every gesture and glance; the performances that resulted are both mesmerizing and suffused with mystery.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There is incredible buried passion in a Bresson film, but he doesn't find it necessary to express it. Also great tension and excitement, tightly reined in.
Lawrence.com
Eric Melin
... it's the strange quality of non-actor Martin LaSalle that sets the film apart. Is he as dead inside as he appears to the outside world? His criminal existence alienates him from the people he cares about even as he continues to pursue it.
Cinemania
Dan Jardine
Pragmatic to the point of being almost mechanical, Pickpocket it is paradoxically saturated with soulfulness.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
This mysterious film composed of silence and emptiness accumulates extraordinary power, and unleashes it in a profoundly moving moment.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Every image in Pickpocket evokes the director's idea of the soul in transition.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
Bresson examines actions but offers little attention to motives, an approach that here seems to suggest that Michel's choices may be a mystery even to himself.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...the act of lifting a wallet from a man's jacket is a means to consider what the act of thievery swipes from the thief's soul.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
A wonderful study of a criminal on the road to redemption.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Hypnotic drama about a Parisian pickpocket.
Film Inquiry
Tynan Yanaga
Pickpocket is an intricately staged, truly intimate character study from the imitable Robert Bresson instantly solidifying itself as one of his greatest works.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Inspired by Dostoevsky's seminal novel, Bresson's rigorous meditation on crime and redemption is a masterpiece, paying attention to the criminal and the society that created him without ever explaining either; it's only 75 minutes but every frame counts
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
An often interminable piece of work...
New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie, above all, affirms the miracle of redemptive love and its price in humility and unconditional surrender.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Ultimately inexplicable, this concentrated, elliptical, economical movie is an experience that never loses its strangeness.
New Yorker
David Denby
Bresson choreographs the complex techniques of lifting wallets and watches with such precision that one seems to be watching a kind of surreptitious ballet.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
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.
Film and Felt
Gabe Leibowitz
Poetic seems too weak a word to sum up Pickpocket's extraordinary arc: that it achieves so much in so short a time (75 minutes) is almost other-worldly.
TIME Magazine
A picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar.
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