![]() It’s essentially a gateway film to styles and filmmakers some might have never discovered and enjoyed. ![]() He defied categorization while still adding to various canons of film waves and movements.Īnd that’s also what makes Pickpocket a classic movie: It’s more or less Bresson’s masterpiece, but it’s also his most accessible film for neophytes to French New Wave and Italian neorealism and Bresson himself. Granted, both movements share many commonalities, but the fact that Bresson (and Pickpocket) straddles both of these important and influential schools of filmmaking is an indication of the kind of filmmaker Bresson was. In fact, many of his early films fit in more with the Italian neorealism movement (real locations, non-actors, focus on the lower class). ![]() What I find most interesting about Bresson is that he was a hailed as a kind of father or forerunner of French New Wave, but none of his films fully fall into the movement. (For Bresson, there was a distinct difference between a movie - essentially filmed theatre - and film/cinema, which attempted to create new experiences with its use of moving images and sound.) Why I Think This Is A Classic 50s Movie: Pickpocket is a classic 50s movie (and a classic movie period) because like all of Bresson’s films, it pushes the expectations of what cinema can be. His mother dies and he resorts to pickpocketing as a means of survival. IMDb Plot Summary: Michel is released from jail after serving a sentence for thievery. Lead Actors: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Kassagi (also served as technical advisor for pickpockets’ skills), Jean Pélégri, Pierre Leymarie ![]()
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