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While Portugal is still involved in the war in Africa, Carlos, a violinist, spends his summer vacation at the beach with a friend couple, Alda and Darius. The world seems far from them, which leads to the three, to experience the rites of friendship and loneliness.Read More »
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In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L’argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence. With brutal economy, Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendenceRead More »