Synopsis
“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.” – Janus Films