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In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. 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.
Original Release
05/18/1983
US Release
03/23/1984
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Christian Patey | Yvon Targe |
Vincent Risterucci | Lucien |
Caroline Lang | Elise |
Sylvie Van den Elsen | Grey Haired Woman |
Michel Briguet | Grey Haired Woman's Father |
Béatrice Tabourin | La photographe |
Didier Baussy | Le photographe |
Marc Ernest Fourneau | Norbert |
Bruno Lapeyre | Martial |
François-Marie Banier | le compagnon de cellule d'Yvon |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Christian Patey | Yvon Targe |
Vincent Risterucci | Lucien |
Caroline Lang | Elise |
Sylvie Van den Elsen | Grey Haired Woman |
Michel Briguet | Grey Haired Woman's Father |
Béatrice Tabourin | La photographe |
Didier Baussy | Le photographe |
Marc Ernest Fourneau | Norbert |
Bruno Lapeyre | Martial |
François-Marie Banier | le compagnon de cellule d'Yvon |
Alain Aptekman | |
Jeanne Aptekman | Yvette |
Dominique Mullier | |
Jacques Behr | |
Gilles Durieux | |
Alain Bourguignon | |
André Cler | Père de Norbert |
Claude Cler | Norbert's Mother |
Anne de Kervazdoué | |
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Antoine Gannagé | Executive Producer |
Daniel Toscan du Plantier | Producer |
Jean-Marc Henchoz | Producer |