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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
L argent, A to Z, a new video essay by film scholar James Quandt
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment
FEATURING:
Actors: Caroline Lang, Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van den Elsen
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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
L argent, A to Z, a new video essay by film scholar James Quandt
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment
FEATURING:
Actors: Caroline Lang, Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van den Elsen
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