Pickpocket

About Pickpocket

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft.

Pickpocket (1959) is a crime film directed by Robert Bresson. Martin LaSalle takes the lead as Michel, Marika Green as Jeanne, Jean Pélégri as Lead Inspector, and Dolly Scal as The Mother.

Released in December 1959, it runs 75 minutes. Written by Robert Bresson.

Members will find france, unsociability, pickpocket, and materialism in it. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 593 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

La Strada, Paths of Glory, and 8½ make useful companions to Pickpocket, all filed under black and white and prison.