Pickpocket Pickpocket

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson

 
Pickpocket (Criterion DVD)

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  • France
  • 1959
  • 75 minutes
  • Black and White
  • 1.33:1
  • French
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  • Spine #314

Robert Bresson’s incomparable tale of crime and redemption follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsion grows, however, so too does his fear that his luck is about to run out. Tautly choreographed and crafted in Bresson’s inimitable style, Pickpocket reveals a master director at the height of his powers.

Cast

Credits

DirectorRobert Bresson
ScreenplayRobert Bresson
CinematographyLéonce-Henri Burel
ProducerAgnès Delahaie
EditingRaymond Lamy
Production designPierre Charbonnier
SoundAntoine Archimbaud
Music from the opera Atys byJean-Baptiste Lully
Conducted byMarc Lanjean
Arrangement byFernand Oubradous
Production managerMichel Choquet
Pickpocket consultantKassagi

Disc Features

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt
  • New video introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader
  • The Models of “Pickpocket,” a 2003 documentary by filmmaker Babette Mangolte, featuring actors from the film
  • A 1960 interview with Bresson, from the French television program Cinépanorama
  • Q&A on Pickpocket, with actress Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris fielding questions at a 2000 screening of the film
  • Footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • New essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana
  • New and improved English subtitle translation

Film Essays

Pickpocket: Robert Bresson—Hidden in Plain Sight

By Gary IndianaNovember 07, 2005

I have an unusually easy way of remembering when I first became fascinated by Robert Bresson’s . . . Read more »

Video


Clippings

Bailey on Bresson

May 12, 2011

Call it notes from a cinematographer on Notes on the Cinematographer: for the latest post to . . . Read more »


Film Essays

Pickpocket: Robert Bresson—Hidden in Plain Sight

By Gary IndianaNovember 07, 2005

I have an unusually easy way of remembering when I first became fascinated by Robert Bresson’s . . . Read more »