Pickpocket

Paris: Agence D E B, 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 film, showing actors Henri Kassagi and Pierre Etaix. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a provenance stamp and label.

Director Robert Bresson's first wholly original screenplay, perhaps the finest of his many films, and according to one of its greatest champions, Paul Schrader, "as close to perfect as [a film] can be."

Set and shot on location in Paris.

7 x 5 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 314. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 4. Selby Classic Noir.

[Book #160494]