There’s just enough detail in The Pleasure of Being Robbed to push its meandering protagonist from point A to B while keeping the audience interested and not openly criticizing the chain of events. Eleonore wanders from one experience to the next, like you’re wont to do in so many independent films, taking the possessions of others and reveling in what she learns by perusing their belongings afterward. Despite living moment by moment, her life seems a monotonous shamble of the same daily occurrences with the only unique factor being the things she finds at the bottom of other people’s bags. But things change, eventually.
Even she seems painfully aware of this irregular rut. The narrative makes it very clear early on that Eleonore isn’t homeless, nor that she’s stealing out of necessity. She takes not in order to live but to feel alive; not like...
Even she seems painfully aware of this irregular rut. The narrative makes it very clear early on that Eleonore isn’t homeless, nor that she’s stealing out of necessity. She takes not in order to live but to feel alive; not like...
- 2/18/2010
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
We are pleased to present the trailer for IFC Films' "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" starring Eleonore Hendricks, Batman, Lowell the Dog, Dawn Glickman, Sam Lisenco, Gary Greenblatt, Alex Greenblatt and Wayne Chin. Although the film has been released on October 3rd, we figured the Red Bucket Films production's trailer is definitely worth a visit. Joshua Safdie makes his feature-length directorial debut on the comedy and writes the story and screenplay with Eleonore Hendricks, Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti. The story of a young woman whose compulsive curiosity leads to bold, elaborate acts of theft...
- 11/6/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We are pleased to present the trailer for IFC Films' "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" starring Eleonore Hendricks, Batman, Lowell the Dog, Dawn Glickman, Sam Lisenco, Gary Greenblatt, Alex Greenblatt and Wayne Chin. Although the film has been released on October 3rd, we figured the Red Bucket Films production's trailer is definitely worth a visit. Joshua Safdie makes his feature-length directorial debut on the comedy and writes the story and screenplay with Eleonore Hendricks, Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti. The story of a young woman whose compulsive curiosity leads to bold, elaborate acts of theft...
- 11/6/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We are pleased to present the trailer for IFC Films' "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" starring Eleonore Hendricks, Batman, Lowell the Dog, Dawn Glickman, Sam Lisenco, Gary Greenblatt, Alex Greenblatt and Wayne Chin. Although the film has been released on October 3rd, we figured the Red Bucket Films production's trailer is definitely worth a visit. Joshua Safdie makes his feature-length directorial debut on the comedy and writes the story and screenplay with Eleonore Hendricks, Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti. What's this about? The story of a young woman whose compulsive curiosity leads to bold, elaborate acts of theft, Josh Safdie's The Pleasure Of Being Robbed is a beguiling blend of casual comedy and subtle, unsettling mystery. The film, the debut feature by 24-year-old New York writer-director Safdie, was the Closing Night film of the 2008 Cannes Directors' Fortnight and the only film from the U.S. to play in that section.
- 11/6/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We are pleased to present the trailer for IFC Films' "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" starring Eleonore Hendricks, Batman, Lowell the Dog, Dawn Glickman, Sam Lisenco, Gary Greenblatt, Alex Greenblatt and Wayne Chin. Although the film has been released on October 3rd, we figured the Red Bucket Films production's trailer is definitely worth a visit. Joshua Safdie makes his feature-length directorial debut on the comedy and writes the story and screenplay with Eleonore Hendricks, Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti. The story of a young woman whose compulsive curiosity leads to bold, elaborate acts of theft...
- 11/6/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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