95
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonRobert Bresson's film hits with the effect not so much reflecting a cleansing of the soul, but rather a ransacking.
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittEvery shot plays a part in the director's underlying scheme - to probe the actual and symbolic roles of money in society, and grander yet, to explore the relationship between matters of the flesh and the human spirit, as manifested by the struggle between aspiration and corruption. [22 March 1984, p.21]
- 100NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenConstructing a work of implacably interlocking images, the 76-year-old director -- as clear-eyed, still and attentive as a beast of the forest observing human folly -- has produced an Olympian protest against the modern world. Yet his lucid mastery produces not despair, but an odd exhilaration. [16 April 1984, p.93]
- 90The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyIt goes beyond the impartiality of journalism. It has the manner of an official report on the spiritual state of a civilization for which there is no hope.
- 88The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)There is no psychology in L'Argent, no acting to speak of; every scene is a minimal sketch which drives the didactic story forward. This use of narrative may sound ordinary, but, in Robert Bresson's pure filmmaking, it becomes extraordinarily relentless. [20 July 1984]
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonCompelling morality tale that works on multiple layers.