L' Argent [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"With minimal embellishment and great subtlety French filmmaker Robert Bresson's L'Argent is a powerful, moving and thought-provoking tragedy about a working stiff who is railroaded toward a bad end by the thoughtless machinations of a society obsessed with l'argent (""money"" in French). Based on Leo Tolstoy's story The False Note, the mess begins with a pair of middle-class teen-aged counterfeiters. One of the boys is angry that his parents refuse to give him pocket money. He turns to his...