Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques in favour of returning to pickpocketing (after taking lessons from an expert), because he realises that it's the only way he can express himself...... (Full plot summary below)
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Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques in favour of returning to pickpocketing (after taking lessons from an expert), because he realises that it's the only way he can express himself...
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| Film4Jamie RussellA classic of cinema, Bresson's sparse tale of one man's misdemeanors is a bold, beautiful essay on crime and punishment. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezEvery image in Pickpocket evokes the director's idea of the soul in transition. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe hero wrestles with a Dostoyevskian conflict. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongThis mysterious film composed of silence and emptiness accumulates extraordinary power, and unleashes it in a profoundly moving moment. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA marvel of poise and circumspect emotion from French auteur Robert Bresson. |
| GuardianDerek MalcolmIt is, at base, about self-fulfilment and redemption through love -- a common enough idea in films. But this 1959 epic has seldom been equalled as a philosophical treatise on the subject. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawBresson's films are the most sublime expression of the powerful, illicit sexuality of the movement of moving pictures against a subjective audience. |
| Film and FeltGabe LeibowitzPoetic seems too weak a word to sum up Pickpocket's extraordinary arc: that it achieves so much in so short a time (75 minutes) is almost other-worldly. |
| CinemaniaDan JardinePragmatic to the point of being almost mechanical, Pickpocket it is paradoxically saturated with soulfulness. |
| Film ThreatRory L. AronskyI believe Bresson would approve of Criterion's efforts, as all possible interpretations of "Pickpocket" are spread throughout the very special features of this disc. |
