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L'argent
Uniform Title
Argent (Motion picture)
Title
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).
ISBN
9781681433318
1681433311
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on the novella The forged coupon by Leo Tolstoy.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.
Wide screen (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.
Pianist, Michel Briguet ; music, J.S. Bach ; directors of photography, Pasqualino de Santis, Emmanuel Machuel ; production designer, Pierre Guffroy ; editor, Jean-Franc̦ois Naudon.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
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.
Variant and related titles
Container title: Money
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2019
Series
The Criterion collection ; 886
Credits
Pianist, Michel Briguet ; music, J.S. Bach ; directors of photography, Pasqualino de Santis, Emmanuel Machuel ; production designer, Pierre Guffroy ; editor, Jean-Franc̦ois Naudon.
Cast
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.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.66:1); monaural.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC2784BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Crime films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Crime films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Motion pictures - France.
Motion pictures - Switzerland.
Motion pictures - France.
Motion pictures - Switzerland.
Also listed under
Marion's Films, presenter, production company.
France 3 cinéma (Firm), production company.
Eos Films, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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