Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“L’Argent” (1983, Robert Bresson)

A teenage boy in Paris passes off a counterfeit bill to make some extra money, and we follow the repercussions, eventually leading to a man’s incarceration, and a family’s murder. Robert Bresson, cinematic genius and Jansenist Catholic, delivers his final film, and the only one completely devoid of any hope for redemption. Dealing with the manner in which duplicity and dishonesty are passed along from generation to generation, this is recession special #1.