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Seattlest went to see the allegedly brand new, fully-restored print of the 1959 Robert Bresson classic Pickpocket at the Northwest Film Forum Tuesday night. We havent seen the French masterpiece since the late '90s when we caught at least part of it at the Grand Illusion, but we must not have stayed for the whole thing because we don't remember falling this madly in love with distressed ultra-goddess Marika Green (move over, precious Natalie Portman!). Seattlest will defer film criticsm to the experts, but for our money, it is indeed a classic: the much-hyped, convincing naturalism by way of Bresson's stylized minimalism, and intense visceral tension in all the close-ups and intimacy with the stealing tradecraft, etc. As for the film's alleged print restoration: to our layman's eyes the picture seemed pretty clean, but the sound quality was mired by the aged hissing/static noise that kind of subsided toward the end. But what can you do? It's an old, old movie. C'est la vie.