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Pickpocket
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1010
- IMDb #1168
- Rotten Tomatoes #760
- Letterboxd #763
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #695
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1276
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93. Critics average 93, everyone else 75.
See the most agreed on films →A young man named Michel believes that certain superior individuals are above the law. He takes up pickpocketing, not out of necessity, but as a philosophical experiment and a test of his own skill. He becomes increasingly obsessed with perfecting his craft, leading him into a solitary life of crime, all while a dedicated police inspector follows his trail and a concerned woman tries to reach him.
Details
- Director
- Robert Bresson
- Writer
- Robert Bresson
- Based on
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Released
- 16 December 1959
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 76 min
- Rated
- NR
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Cast
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Awards
3 nominations total
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