TITLE...........: L'Argent (1983)
STARS...........: Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van Den Elsen
DIRECTOR........: Robert Bresson
WRITERS.........: Robert Bresson, Lev Tolstoy
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama
METACRITIC......: 95/73
TOMATOMETER.....: 97/81
IMDB SCORE......: 7.4
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085180
RUNTIME.........: 1h 25mn
SIZE............: 6.73 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 11000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1792x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.66:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: French FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by author Kent Jones [New Yorker DVD]
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray, Artificial Eye DVD, New Yorker DVD
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-11-13
CHECKSUM........: E7CA49261BF5CAA50F687312A5EC0DE3


In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L’argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence. With brutal economy, Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.


Extras

• Cannes Film Festival 1983 press conference
• L'Argent, A to Z video essay by film scholar James Quandt
• Theatrical Trailer
• TF1 Interview with Robert Bresson [Artificial Eye]
• TSR Interview with Robert Bresson [Artificial Eye]
• Marguerite Duras on Bresson [Artificial Eye]
• Commentary by author Kent Jones [New Yorker DVD]