Pickpocket
Bresson's massively influential tale (inspired by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment) of a pickpocket (the intense Martin La Salle) who finds hard-won redemption through love is a startlingly pure and austere religious allegory.
Léonce-Henry Burel's cinematography focuses with mesmeric intensity on the ballet-like play of nimble hands and stoic faces, creating a work of great emotional and cinematic impact: "With theft I entered by the back door into the kingdom of morality" (Bresson).
With Pierre Etaix.
