L'argent Blu-ray CRITERION COLLECTION
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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
- L argent, A to Z, a new video essay by film scholar James Quandt
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment
FEATURING:
- Actors: Caroline Lang, Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van den Elsen
- Directors: Robert Bresson
- Format: Subtitled, Widescreen
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: Unrated Not Rated
Run Time: 84 minutes
