L'Argent (1983) Bresson - ending
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2024
- An ambiguous ending.
"If the bystanders figure the audience, their turned and motionless heads suggest not only that they may be wanting something more out of the film, but that they are possibly seeking a way back into it." Keith Reader
i first saw this 10 years ago on vhs. the ending works better on tape than on dvd because the tape just goes black for an eternity then goes to white noise with jarring finality (that's all folks!) instead of returning to the comfort of a dvd menu. one of the great "no-closure" film endings without any comforting closing credits (i.e. "the birds", "the tenant", "teorema"). sheer existential terror.
Some other films, with abrupt endings: "Last Tango in Paris;" "Once Upon a Time in America" (perhaps; maybe not. Great soundtrack though.) "L'Enfer" (Claude Chabrol, 1994 --- "This film has no end";)
Saw a screening of it the other month (first time seeing it) and the curtain being draped over the screen as the last few seconds of the film were still playing accompanied by complete audience silence was a really powerful experience
Alongside Au hasard Balthasar, this is one of my favorite Robert Bresson films. I enjoy the minimalist dialogue, and how all sense of spectacular excitement is leached out of the movie. L'argent has a steady rhythm and a largely monochrome mood, no matter what happens in it. On the other hand, an awful lot does happen within its brisk eighty-four minutes-with more evident variety of location and event than in many other films. In L'argent, the narrative hardly stops for breath as it piles incident upon incident. The automatic money dispenser shown in the first shot under the credits gives the cue: there is something deliberately machinelike and glacial about the film, like a relentless, inexorable contraption of doom. L'argent has an unusual structure, breaking into two unequal parts,. Its first act tracks no fewer than four simultaneous narrative lines. These lines are linked through a series of crossovers, each of which leads to further consequences and complications. By the time Yvon and the woman played by Sylvie Van den Elsen instantly share the most perverse bond in any Bresson film, one knows that it will all end badly, but not before some poignant moments of simple grace, such as when Yvon helps his new companion at her outdoor clothesline, or when he picks hazelnuts from tree branches-this action filmed, obviously, in shots of hands at the operation of undergoing exertion.
this is amazing, so so so amazing
Woahhh! You just came back after 8 years!!
Fantastic movie
great movie
following is not the definitive explanation of this movie but imo good one-
people expect/need more from the society than materialism/money that rules the modern rationally meaningless/unjust world
even committing a senseless crime (and then giving oneself up) may create meaning beyond materialism