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L'Argent

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L'Argent
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1hr 24min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1983
Director:
Robert Bresson
Distributor:
New Yorker Video
Starring:
Christian Patey, Sylvie van den Elsen, Michel Briguet  ...more
Synopsis: The last film by veteran writer/director Robert Bresson, the French crime drama L'Argent (Money) was based on a short story by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Looking for some quick cash, young man Norbert (Marc Ernest Fourneau) gets a phony 500 franc note from his friend Matrial (Bruno Lapeyre). After he spends it at a photography shop, the unscrupulous shop owner (Didier Baussy) decides to pass it on to someone else. The unfortunate victim is honest delivery man Yvon Targe (Christian Patey), who ... Full Synopsis
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Wheeler Winston Dixon, AMG Review
Robert Bresson's last film, L'Argent is essentially about the ways in which money corrupts the human spirit, and begins with a shot of an ATM machine dispensing cash, an immediate indication that Bresson, though by then an old master, was still entirely in touch with modern civilization and its many mechanisms. Very loosely based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, the film's unrelenting narrative follows the ... Full Review
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Christian Patey
Yvon Targe
Sylvie van den Elsen
Old Woman
Michel Briguet
The Woman's Father
Caroline Lang
Elise Target
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