Blu-ray, DVD Release: L’Argent

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 11, 2017
Price: DVD $18.03, Blu-ray $24.07
Studio: Criterion

French master Robert Bresson (Pickpocket) pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency in the 1983 crime drama L’Argent, his final film.

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.

Criterion’s new Blu-ray and DVD edition of the foreign film contain the following:

* New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* 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
* An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983  interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment

Buy or Rent L’Argent

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.