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©2017
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages)
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Inspired by Tolstoy's The counterfeit bill
"In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver, leading him to incarceration and violence"--Container
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983
Widescreen (1.66:1)
Features: Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival ; "L'argent", A to Z, a new fifty-minute video essay by film scholar James Quandt ; Trailer; An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment
Pianist, Michel Briguet ; music, J.S. Bach ; directors of photography, Pasqualino de Santis, Emmanuel Machuel ; editor, Jean-Franc̦ois Naudon
Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie van den Elsen, Béatrice Tabourin, Didier Baussy, Marc Ernest Fourneau, Bruno Lapeyre, Franc̦ois-Marie Banier
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.66:1); monaural
French dialogue with optional English subtitles