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Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir:
Let’s be honest: “Pleasure of Being Robbed” drove a lot of people crazy at Cannes, including people whose tastes I respect. I could flatter myself by claiming that they didn’t get it and I did, but things are never entirely that simple. What I saw as a challenging, open-ended emotional and psychological journey with an exasperating but irresistible character — something like a slacker-era blend of Bresson’s “Pickpocket” and Godard’s “Breathless” — struck other viewers as self-indulgent pseudo-rebellion.
O’Hehir’s interview with the producers laments the distribution difficulties such a tiny film encounters, while conveying the pleasures of making a movie for “way under $100,000.”
(HD trailer here, and two beautiful posters after the cut.)