Pickpocket

1 Shaqtacular

Bresson's stoic, pragmatic minimalism does not always gel with my preference of cinema that is messy yet alive in its curiousity of how to push against the frame, but there's no denying the refinement. Two Bressons in and I am taken by how he films hands, as if they operate independently, as they transfer physical gains and emotional losses, the closeups like magic tricks but no smirk on the magician, as with L'argent the chains that link impulsions of greed, strengthened with each passing hand.