L’argent
54th New York Film Festival
September 30 - 11, 2016
Robert Bresson’s final film, the story of a counterfeit bill’s passage from hand to hand and the resulting tragic consequences, burns white hot, not with anger but with a perfect clarity of purpose: to direct us to see that habitual human callousness is what keeps us out of paradise.
Robert Bresson’s final film, an adaptation of Tolstoy’s story The Forged Coupon, is simultaneously bleak and luminous, and sharp enough to cut diamonds. The story of a counterfeit bill’s passage from hand to hand and the resulting tragic consequences is rendered with a clean force that would be startling from a filmmaker of any age; coming from one in his early 80s, it was, and still is, astonishing. L’argent burns white hot—not with anger but with a perfect clarity of purpose: to direct us to see that habitual human callousness is what keeps us out of paradise. Restored by MK2, in 2K from a 4K scan of the original negative. A Janus Films release.
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