Product: L' Argent [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 5.0
An extraordinary, thought provoking film!
Paul Hunter's review says just about everything that I could about this film. It is truly an outstanding and thought provoking work. Paul Bresson's films are about as far from Hollywood as one can imagine. His films employ no name actors and are shot in a minimalist style that let the stories seemingly tell themselves, although clearly each shot has been framed with great deliberation. "L'Argent", as many of Bresson's films, deals with human tragedy. It depicts how it is possible for a good person to be turned by circumstances, mostly outside his control, into a murderer. It seems to say...don't sit their in judgement, until you have walked in another's shoes. This film could be the best case made for why capital punishment should be abolished. And, incidentally, capital punishment does not exist in modern day France.Amazon.com is to be complimented for featuring Bresson's works in the March, 2000 "Art House and International" reviews. Hopefully these films will be released on less expensive DVD versions. It would also be great if Amazon.com is able to locate a DVD or VHS supplier of perhaps Bresson's greatest work, "Au hasard Balthazar"...a film that depicts every human emotion through the experience of a donkey.