Robert Bresson's mesmerizing final film, based on the Leo Tolstoy short story, won him Best Director at Cannes, and details the tragic chain of events following the passing of a forged banknote by two school-boys. The note is transferred to the unwitting Yvon, who loses his job and becomes trapped in a disastrous spiral of theft, imprisonment and murder. Made when Bresson was 80, and considered to be the last masterpiece of his remarkable 40-year career, L'argent is shot in Bresson's influential minimalist style and explores his familiar themes of moral conflict, guilt, grace and redemption with extraordinary force and power.