Pickpocket Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 73 mins
- Year produced:
- 1959
- Director:
- Robert Bresson
- Cast:
- Martin LaSalle
- Marika Green
- Pierre Leymarie
This classic French film may be in black and white, but the issues it deals with are not. It’s a complex and intriguing character study that was inspired by the legendary novel Crime and Punishment. Michel the pickpocket steals because of a strange compulsion - he is remote and arrogant, believing that a “superior” criminal should be above the law. The movie focuses not on the material gain a life of crime might bring, but on the spiritual emptiness that might drive a person to seek sensation through wrongdoing.
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Fascinating facts
Pickpocket’s director Robert Bresson preferred not to use professional actors, as he said he wanted his films to be “real”.