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Aug 27, 2017jimg2000 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This 1983 L'Argent (money) was based on Leo Tolstoy's novella The Forged Coupon. (Brings to mind Tolstoy's contemporary Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment.") The film covered a lot of events involving many characters in just a bit over 85 minutes with few dialogue but striking sequences of visual scenes that began with two school boys passed off a counterfeit 500 fr note and ended with brutal madness. One of the best “show, don’t tell” movie. Both DVD and BR versions are available now. Read the article “L’argent: The Weight of the World By Adrian Martin”, a booklet included with the Criterion Collection DVD: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4719-l-argent-the-weight-of-the-world