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L'Argent (French pronunciation: [laʁ.ʒɑ̃], meaning "money") is a 1983 French tragedy film written and directed by Robert Bresson. The film is loosely inspired by the first part of Leo Tolstoy 's posthumously published 1911 novella The Forged Coupon .
May 18, 1983 · L'Argent: Directed by Robert Bresson. With Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van den Elsen. A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
While collecting payment from a Paris photography shop, hard-working fuel delivery man Yvon Targe (Christian Patey) is purposefully given counterfeit money without his knowledge. When Yvon ...
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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.
Jul 11, 2017 · L’argent is an imposing, even forbidding work; in one of its earliest reviews, Mike Sarne of the British magazine Films categorically stated (and not without admiration): “Bresson is not trying to please . . . The film is not designed to be liked.”
Feb 12, 2022 · L’Argent (Money) is Bresson’s final film, and his take on Tolstoy’s story characterizes people as rapacious and violent, and our society as cruel and unjust. With his meticulous approach to craft and structure, Bresson portrays an evil that spreads out from an act of forgery like a disease.
Based on a short story by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy entitled "Faux Billet", L'Argent is Bresson's last uncompromising film which earned him the Best Director's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, tied with Andrei Tarkovsky for Nostalgia (1983).
