L'Argent (Criterion Collection)

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