Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 15, 2014
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95, DVD $24.99
Studio: Criterion
Martin LaSalle and Marika Green in Pickpocket.
The 1959 crime drama Pickpocket is an incomparable story of crime and redemption from French master Robert Bresson (The Devil, Probably).
The film follows Michel (Martin LaSalle), a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out.
A cornerstone in the career of Bresson, one of the most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace. It is indeed the work of a director at the height of his powers.
Presented in French with English subtitles, Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD combo and single-disc editions of Pickpocket contains the following features:
• New, 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt
• Introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader
• The Models of “Pickpocket,” a 2003 documentary by Babette Mangolte that features actors from the film
• Interview from 1960 with director Robert Bresson, from the French television program Cinépanorama
• Q&A on Pickpocket from 2000 with actor Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris
• Footage of the sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• A booklet featuring an essay by novelist and critic Gary Indiana
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