L'argent / Marion's Films présente ; un film de Robert Bresson ; une co-production franco-suisse [de] Marion's Films-FR 3 (France), Eos Films (Suisse).
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie van den Elsen, Béatrice Tabourin, Didier Baussy, Marc Ernest Fourneau, Bruno Lapeyre, Franc̦ois-Marie Banier, Jeanne Aptekman, Dominique Mullier, Jacques Behr, Gilles Durieux. Title from title frame. Based on the novella The forged coupon by Leo Tolstoy. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983. Widescreen (1.66:1). Features: Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival ; "L'argent", A to Z, a new fifty-minute video essay by film scholar James Quandt ; Trailer; In booklet: an essay by critic Adrian Martin and a 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment.
Summary:
"In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver, leading him to incarceration and violence"--Container.
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