French Film L’Argent at OKCMOA

• An adaptation of Tolstoy’s story The Forged Coupon, Robert Bresson’s crystalline final film, L’Argent, tells the story of a counterfeit bill’s passage from hand to hand, and the tragic consequences that result. Presented in a recent 4K restoration, it screens as part of Museum Films' "Late Bresson" series.

• In French with English subtitles. (85 minutes)

• “In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L’Argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence. With brutal economy, Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.” –Janus Films