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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Images of entrapment abound in Pickpocket. Michel is consistently found between two people. In more than one case these are police detectives. More interesting, however, are the patterns of light which Bresson manages to achieve. Bresson is fanatical in his use of light. Capable of creating films entirely in whites (Au Hasard Balthazar) or in blacks (Diary of a Country Priest, Mouchette), in Pickpocket Bresson uses both in conjunction to demonstrate the difference between Michel's acts and their consequences...
...central point in the film he goes to visit his dying mother. As he lies to her about her health and bends over her bed, rays or light cross him like prison bars. That light should entrap is something almost inpermissible in our set of conventions; Bresson's use of it to convey a value almost totally discredited in our society is as daring as it is right...
Certain similarities between Chris Marker's The Koumiko Mystery and the American documentaries seem to imply a common basic premise. The choice of "real" subject matter, the use of television programs and political commentary, the inclusion of footage which could not have been preplanned (the Tokyo Olympic Games for example), and the apparently random way Marker orders his material suggest the same realities as do the Americans...
There is a special emphasis on objects in The Three sisters, which rules out the use of stylized settings. In the huge cavernous space of the Festival theatre, one couldn't just construct the usual box of three walls and a ceiling. William Ritman has solved the problem nicely by having us face the living-room (and dining-room beyond) from the diagonal. And he has carefully included objects that tell us much about the characters of the household--little vases of lilacs or lilies-of-the-valley, framed pictures, an old square piano with a tasseled shawl, candle brackets...
...comparatively trivial, but surprisingly substantial drawback has been the lack of adequate child care facilities. Again, the Department of Public Welfare is to make arrangements for either day care or baby-sitters. As yet, no centers exist for AFDC use, and the red tape in paying baby-sitters often involves a lengthy delay in just getting funds appropriated...