Pickpocket
CrimeDrama
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. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
VIBE
A cool, detached look at a man adrift in modern society. It feels like watching a ghost drift through Paris, observing the allure of materialism and the inescapable pull of a life on the fringes. A study in alienation.
cooldetachedmelancholiccynicalsteadyFrench New Waveblack and whiteobservationalnaturalisticalienationtemptationmaterialismfate
prisonfranceunsociabilitypickpocketmodern societymaterialismblack and white
