Pickpocket

Pickpocket

Be aware of your belongings

Rating

4.0 (1)

Release Date

12/16/1959

Runtime

75 mins

Overview

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A austere, deeply introspective portrait of a man drawn compulsively toward theft despite, or because of, his loneliness and grief. Bresson's minimalist style treats crime not as spectacle but as spiritual crisis.

Mood

BleakContemplativeTenseWistful

Themes

CrimeIsolationRedemptionIdentity

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Black and whiteNaturalisticFormalist

Structure

Linear

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Addiction

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

pickpocket is a very fascinating film.
in a modern world where people say "everyone is good at something"
allot of people don't acknowledge the individuals who are good at things that are deemed bad by society.

i phrase that like its not, it is but our main character michel has the impulse to do that. that impulse and need to pickpocket people is the fact he's very good at it.
everytime michel pickpockets someone its shown like this elegant and precise movement.
even when michel tells jeanne that he's gonna help her take care of her baby, he ultimately goes back to his ways which gets him in jail.

michel is a strange yet tragic character who sits in the middle of everyone where he's not specifically a bad person, he's just has a bad impulse, he's just to good.

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