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Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson launches an excursion into the cold world of Nietzschean philosophy as he takes his hero, a pickpocket, through a series of emotional situations. The film propounds paradoxes: that man must sin to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson launches an excursion into the cold world of Nietzschean philosophy as he takes his hero, a pickpocket, through a series of emotional situations. The film propounds paradoxes: that man must sin to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
...Third Lover. Claude Chabrol has made a chilling psychological thriller about the sin of envy. Jacques Charrier is the baby-faced rat who wrecks a marriage and causes a murder because others' happiness makes him angry...
...masterpiece, but the best of them (Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped) are luminous meditations on the life of man in the sight of God. In Pickpocket, a picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar, Bresson propounds a harrowing paradox: that man must sin in order to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
...more talented than others and have the right to break the law. Their crimes revitalize society." Such thoughts impelled Raskolnikov to murder; they inspire Michel to pick pockets. The crimes differ in seriousness, but not in spiritual effect. In both cases, the crime compels the hero to experience successively sin, guilt, despair, contrition, atonement, love...