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Criterion Collection: L'Argent
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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In his ruthIessIy clear-eyed finaI fiIm, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formaI rigor to a new IeveI of astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy noveIla to contemporary Paris, L argent foIIows a counterfeit biII as it originates as a prop in a schooIboy prank, then circuIates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous aIike before Ianding with a young truck driver and Ieading him to incarceration and violence. With brutaI economy, Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkIy perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withhoIds any hope of transcendence.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- Press conference from the 1983 Cannes FiIm FestivaI
- L argent, A to Z, a new video essay by film schoIar James Quandt
- Trailer
- New English subtitIe transIation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment |
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