Pickpocket
<b>Book tickets for two or more of our <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/nouvelle-vague/">Nouvelle Vague</a> films to receive a discount! Tickets can also be bought separately.</b> On a whim, Michel takes up pickpocketing but is arrested shortly after. Soon after his release, his mother dies, and Michel bands together with a gang of petty thieves to master his craft, despite his only friend Jacques and his mother's neighbour Jeanne's protestation. A police inspector keeps an eye on him, so Michel tries to get a normal job - but the temptation to steal is very hard to resist... In Richard Linklater's <i>Nouvelle Vague</i>, you can spot Robert Bresson making <i>Pickpocket</i> in the Paris Métro - indeed, Linklater has also namedthe filmin his top ten picks from the Criterion Collection. In a rather delightful piece of what you could call method acting, one of Michel's accomplices is played by Henri Kassagi, a French-Tunisian pickpocket who also acted as an advisor on the film. Unfortunately for Henri, following the film's release, his face was far too well known to continue plying his usual trade - so of course, he switched careers to being a stage magician!CrimePT1H15MPG2026-02-10Martin LaSalle
Marika Green
Jean Pélégri
Robert Bresson
Agnès Delahaie
Pickpocket"Pickpocket"Showtimes
February 10, 1:30 pm
February 12, 8:30 pm
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