Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart

Summary

DC Fairhurst and Lucy Green’s film could have been a by-the-numbers genre piece. Instead it is fun, frothy and refreshingly different Audiences have been conditioned to expect movies that are either in full colour or, more occasionally now, black and white – and ne’er the twain shall meet. Or, at least, very rarely: the sassy, small-budget crime flick Pickpockets joins a small consortium of films – including Rumble Fish , Pleasantville and Schindler’s List – that zhoosh things up by mixing both. In each of these, colourised elements are tied to symbolic purposes: a conservative world growing…

Description from The Guardian.