See this film retrospective: The Complete Robert Bresson @ the HFA
Pickpocket (1959)
His films blow through the over-produced pabulum of
most current cinema like a brisk, purifying breeze. The Harvard Film Archive
opens its massive month-long retrospective The Complete Robert Bresson with Pickpocket ( 1959; 7 pm + January 22
at 5 pm), a meticulously detailed portrait of a young man learning the title
trade that is both a how-to masterpiece and an existential enigma. It's paired
with Bresson's first feature, Angels of the Streets (1942; 9 pm), a drama
about female prisoners seeking rehabilitation at a convent which he shot in
Nazi-occupied France after he was himself just released from an 18-month stint
in a German POW camp. That's Friday, January 20 at the Harvard Film Archive in the Carpenter Center,
24 Quincy St, Cambridge | $9; $7 students, seniors |
617.495.4700 or hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.