Pickpocket
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pickpocket |
| Original title | Pickpocket |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Bresson |
| script | Robert Bresson |
| production | Agnés Delahaie |
| music | Jean-Baptiste Lully |
| camera | Léonce-Henri Burel |
| occupation | |
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Pickpocket is a French feature film of director Robert Bresson from the year 1959 .
action
Pickpocket is about the young intellectual Michel , who slowly falls into the obsession of having to commit pickpockets. At first he steals from his fellow human beings out of greed , but over time the stealing becomes an end in itself and Michel pursues his criminal activities more and more as a passion . After he was caught trying to steal one of his amateurish attempts at first, he went to a professional pickpocket to train him. As the film progresses, the protagonist becomes increasingly emotionally dependent on his actions. Although Michel is in close contact with his sick mother and genuinely loved by his friend Jeanne , these human relationships do not provide the level of satisfaction that stealing can. Even at the end of the film he takes the criminal consequences of his actions more and more lightly; pickpocketing is an insurmountable addiction for him.
background
Pickpocket is considered to be one of the most stylish films by Robert Bresson . Unemotional commentary from the off soberly explains the protagonists' feelings and motives. In Pickpocket , as in many of his films, Bresson used amateur actors whom he called models and instructed not to use any acting techniques, but to move through his films in an almost documentary manner. He used music very sparingly and only in certain crucial moments of the film in order to give the viewer the greatest possible degree of freedom in interpreting the characters and their actions.
reception
The film critic Roger Ebert sees Pickpocket as borrowing from Dostoyevsky's crime and punishment . Bresson's Michel acts like the protagonist Raskolnikov , who uses criminal channels to raise money to make his dreams come true.
For the lexicon of international film , Pickpocket was "[...] a brittle character study in the typical formal language of Bressons." Meaning of the representational ”. The film fits in “richly in contrast to the new year of the French Nouvelle Vague”.
Awards
- Berlin International Film Festival 1960 : Robert Bresson , nomination Golden Bear
Web links
- Pickpocket in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pickpocket 's in French as in the English language, the word for pickpocket
- ↑ 1001 FILMS THE BEST FILMS OF ALL TIME - Selected and presented by international film critics, ed. v. Steven Jay Schneider, Edition Olms AG, Zurich 2004, p. 372.
- ↑ Lennard Højbjerg & Peter Schepelern, Film Style and Story: A Tribute to Torben Grodal . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Forlag (2003): 92
- ^ Roger Ebert, Pickpocket (1959) . Chicago Sun-Times. July 6, 1997. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
- ↑ Pickpocket. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ IMDB.com: Awards for Pickpocket . In: imdb.com . Retrieved January 17, 2010.