Product Details

• Actors: Eleonore Hendricks, Joshua Safdie
• Directors: Joshua Safdie
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: February 9, 2010
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B002U1LGU0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,783 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Eléonore is a pickpocket, a con artist and a thief. She ll pilfer your purse, your car, a handful of grapes or a litter of kittens. She robs out of need, curiosity or maybe just for the hell of it. From the hipster bars of the Lower East Side to the cages of Central Park Zoo, Eléonore steals her way through life in New York City plus the occasional road trip to Boston with a freewheeling spontaneity that may lead her to most unexpected score of all. Eléonore Hendricks and director Joshua Safdie star in this breezily lo-fi look at slacker larceny co-written by Hendricks and Safdie and shot guerilla-style on the streets of NYC that rocked The Director s Fortnight at Cannes to become one of the most talked-about indie sensations of the year.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Portrait of a Loser, May 14, 2010

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Bold Gray Mare (Lake Superior, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Ws) (DVD)

Nice camera work, visually interesting and a fine sound track. This unsophisticated film will delight film buffs, kleptomaniacs and advocates of redistribution-of-wealth theory alike. However I found the sympathetic portrayal of an impulsive and immature gamine, Eleanor (who steals other people's belongings for kicks), vaguely repugnant. She opportunistically preys on her random victims, even establishing a fleeting rapport with them as she steals their prized possessions.

Watching her go from one klepto fix to another was like watching a slow motion wreck--compelling, shocking, sad. The viewer is along for her thrill-seeking ride. After she steals what looks like a diaper bag from a father unloading luggage from a taxi, we discover it contains family pets. Eleanor rejects the lively young dog (kicking it out of her apartment) but keeps its kitten companions. Her lack of concern for the pup she abandons typifies her callous, self-centered behavior. The viewer gradually loses hope that Eleanor will make a change for the better. It's disheartening.

If "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" meant to depict the callowness of urban youth, it succeeds. But I disliked it, a lot.