Peacock Visual Arts is the main contemporary visual arts organisation in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland and is supported by Aberdeen City Council and Creative Scotland.
Film screening Thursday 20 Sep: 'Pickpocket'
14 September 2007
Still taken from Pickpocket
Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, France 1959, 73 min
Michel (Martin Lasalle) is a petty thief who, after being arrested and then re-leased, starts discussing the rights and wrongs of crime with the police inspector. The only way he can find a place for himself in society is to engineer a head-on collision with it. It gives him a reason to live. In that way, picking pockets becomes an exciting, almost sexual adventure. It is a kind of pact with the Devil.
But he has to leave France for London when the band of thieves he joins is arrested. And when he returns he is also caught. It is only when he is visited in prison by Jeanne (Marika Green), the girl who looked after his mother before she died and is now abandoned with a child, that he realises that his whole life could be changed by love.
- Location: Peacock Visual Arts
- Starts 6.30pm
- Admission free