Robert Bresson directs Martin LaSalle, Marika Green and Pierre Leymarie in this French arthouse drama about a man who turns to petty crime to test his philosophies about man and society.

He meets many men in cafes and forms instant intimacies. Every theft is a seduction of touch, an erotic invasion of space. Surprised this isn’t considered a queer coded classic. Such a huge strand of DNA in Paul Schrader’s creative vision that it feels like I have watched this before. But I easily prefer Schrader to Bresson.

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Perfect Double Bill: L’Argent (1983)

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