To reach you at last, what a strange path I had to take.
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
- 7.3
- 1959
- Released
- 1h 15m
Martin LaSalle
Michel
Marika Green
Jeanne
Jean Pélégri
Lead InspectorDolly Scal
The MotherPierre Leymarie
Jacques
Kassagi
1st AccompliceSophie Saint-Just
(uncredited)
Dominique Zardi
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Released
fr
- #prison
- #france
- #unsociability
- #pickpocket
- #modern society
- #materialism
- #black and white
Reviews
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Martin LaSalle is really quite effective here as the small time pickpocket ("Michel"), who just about manages to get by, from day to day, wearing the same suit and living in his one room garret where even the door doesn't lock. He spends his time with friend "Jacques" (Pierre Leymarie) with both taking a bit of shine to "Jeanne" (Marika Green) who is a neighbour to his rapidly declining mother (Do