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Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely poetic and philosophical obsessions. He described this, his penultimate film, as a digest of the nineteen definitive underworld set-ups that could be found in John Huston's picture of doomed gangsters, The Asphalt Jungle. Darker, more abstract and desolate than his earlier work, this shows, set piece by set piece, the breakdown of the criminal codes under which Melville's characters had previously operated. Even in the butchered version distributed in Britain (dubbed and cut to 102 minutes) it's worth seeing: the mood remains, as does the film's central sequence, a superbly executed silent jewel robbery in the Place Vendôme.Author: CPe
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- Miomir Krsmanovic said...
- Posted on May 31 2008 11:52 Melville's classic film noir with Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Bourvil.
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Cast & crew
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Producer: Robert Dorfmann
Cast: Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Yves Montand, François Périer, Gian Maria Volonté, André Eykan, Pierre Collet, Paul Crauchet full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Rated: PG
Duration: 150 mins
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