Argent, L' 1983

Critics score:
96 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: It's tough but it's also rewarding. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Bresson, working his sound track as assiduously as his visuals, once again makes us realize how little use most films make of the resources of the cinema. A masterpiece. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Bresson -- who was eighty-two years old when the film came out, and clearly in no mood for mellowing -- frames the acts of wickedness, both great and small, with a terrifying calm. Read more

Time Out: This is a return to the extremes of crime and punishment that Bresson last used in Pickpocket; and as in that film, crime is a model of redemption and prison a metaphor for the soul. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: A harrowing scour of ideological cinema. Read more