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  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to turn to crime and murder.

Directed By: Robert Bresson

Written By: Lev Tolstoy, Robert Bresson

  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

L'Argent

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 6 Critic Reviews
95
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.2
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Summary A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to turn to crime and murder.

Directed By: Robert Bresson

Written By: Lev Tolstoy, Robert Bresson

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 6 Critic Reviews
95
100% Positive
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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100
Constructing a work of implacably interlocking images, the 76-year-old director -- as clear-eyed, still and attentive as a beast of the forest observing human folly -- has produced an Olympian protest against the modern world. Yet his lucid mastery produces not despair, but an odd exhilaration. [16 April 1984, p.93]
By David Ansen FULL REVIEW
100
Every shot plays a part in the director's underlying scheme - to probe the actual and symbolic roles of money in society, and grander yet, to explore the relationship between matters of the flesh and the human spirit, as manifested by the struggle between aspiration and corruption. [22 March 1984, p.21]
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
100
Robert Bresson's film hits with the effect not so much reflecting a cleansing of the soul, but rather a ransacking.
By Eric Henderson FULL REVIEW
90
It goes beyond the impartiality of journalism. It has the manner of an official report on the spiritual state of a civilization for which there is no hope.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
88
There is no psychology in L'Argent, no acting to speak of; every scene is a minimal sketch which drives the didactic story forward. This use of narrative may sound ordinary, but, in Robert Bresson's pure filmmaking, it becomes extraordinarily relentless. [20 July 1984]
FULL REVIEW
80
Compelling morality tale that works on multiple layers.
By David Parkinson FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.2
65% Positive
11 Ratings
18% Mixed
3 Ratings
18% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.2
65% Positive
11 Ratings
18% Mixed
3 Ratings
18% Negative
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Production Company Eôs Films, France 3 Cinéma, Marion's Films
Release Date Mar 23, 1984
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cahiers du Cinéma
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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