Pickpocket

Writer and director Robert Bresson from his first original screenplay, novice actor Martin La Salle as "Michel" narrating, at the race track and later meeting a police inspector (Jean Pelegri), opening Pickpocket, 1959.

Afraid that he's being watched by the cops, Michel (Martin La Salle) discovers that his observer is really a fellow thief (Henri Kassagi, a well-known French illusionist of the time), who offers advice, illustrated in the austere style of writer-director Robert Bresson, in Pickpocket, 1959.