L'Argent

7.4

/10

1h 25mCrime Drama Thriller

In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence. With brutal economy, Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.

Spoken language: fr

Starring Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Caroline Lang, Marc Ernest Fourneau

Watch "L'Argent" from streaming services HBO Max, Vudu, Criterion Channel and several more released in 1983. It's a crime and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.4 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.