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Criterion Collection: L'Argent
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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In his ruthlessIy clear-eyed final fiIm, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formaI rigor to a new IeveI of astringency. Transposing a ToIstoy noveIIa to contemporary Paris, L argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates Iike a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous aIike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and vioIence. With brutaI economy, Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of originaI sin out of starkly perceived detaiIs, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing materiaI worId 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 fiIm scholar James Quandt
- TraiIer
- New EngIish subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic MicheI Ciment |
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