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 Apple TV+ (itunes), Amazon 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, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.