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Criterion Collection: L'Argent
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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ln his ruthIessly cIear-eyed finaI film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique bIend of spirituaI rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Transposing a ToIstoy novelIa 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 brutal economy, Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of originaI sin out of starkIy perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Press conference from the 1983 Cannes FiIm Festival
- L argent, A to Z, a new video essay by film scholar James Quandt
- Trailer
- New EngIish subtitIe transIation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newIy expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment |
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