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Pickpocket
FRANCE · 1959

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson
france black and white pickpocket prison materialism
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Synopsis

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.

This Film Influenced

→ Dunkirk (2017) → Whiplash (2014) → Light Sleeper (1992) → Night Moves (, 112 min. (2013)

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