The Mozart of Pickpockets

  • Crime
  • Comedy
5/14/2006
31

Storyline

Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Spanish pickpockets on the streets of Paris, posing as policemen who arrest a gang member while the others rifle the pockets and purses of gawkers. When all of the gang except Richard and Philippe are pinched, things look grim. Plus, Richard insists that they take in a wide-eyed immigrant lad, a deaf-mute left behind in the arrests. Philippe suggests a three-person pickpocket trick, using the boy, but when that goes spectacularly badly, they hit rock bottom. Then, at the cinema, the lad finds a solution. It's time to celebrate.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Though he hasnt a line in the whole thing, Matteo Razzouki-Safardi steals this engaging Dickensian style Parisian short drama. It all starts with Philippe (auteur Philippe Pollet-Villard) and his pal Richard (Richard Morgiève) who make a living pretending to be cops apprehending a gang of pickpockets. Whilst they do all the youre nicked stuff, the others in their gang go through the bags and pockets of the unsuspecting bystanders and later they divide the loot. One such sting goes a bit wonky, though, and before the lads have any chance to intervene the real gendarmes have apprehended their conspirators and left them standing innocently by. Except, somewhere in the mêlée, Richard has a acquired a new friend. They head back to their hotel, b...

        January 10, 2026

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