L’Argent12A

Directed by Robert Bresson | France | 1983 | 1h 25m | French w/ English subtitles | Starring Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Vincent Risterucci

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person, until it falls into the hands of an innocent man who does not realise that the note is a fake – until it lands him in trouble. In his ferociously single-minded final film, French master Robert Bresson constructs an unforgiving and haunting vision of money’s destructive power.

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Reviews

‘L’Argent manages to convey coherence between rigid moral dogma and sympathetic multiplicity. It’s mind-blowing.’
★★★★★
Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

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