Yeah definitely. This guy makes Stanley Kubrick's actors look warm and fuzzy
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To think that I was this close to getting
Pickpocket,
Au Hazard Bathazar and
L'Argent from the library all at once, in an effort to group my screenings by director... btw, I never cease to be amazed by my local library's criterion selection. Most of the stuff I've watched in the last few weeks come from there. I have a Netflix subscription, but routinely forget to mail stuff back, and can for an entire month without new disks
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Back to Bresson, just based on the one I saw, it's very easy to see how his aesthetics would them themselves perfectly to scenes of pickpocketing.
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