Rififi (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
...Means Trouble!
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- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 2, 2018
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jean Servais, Robert Hossein & Magali Noël | |
Performer: | Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey, Claude Sylvain, Pierre Grasset, Emile Genevois & Carl Möhner | |
Directed by | Jules Dassin | |
Edited by | Roger Dwyre | |
Screenwriting by | Jules Dassin | |
Composition by | Georges Auric | |
Director of Photography: | Philippe Agostini |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1955 -
Best Director: Jules Dassin
Entertainment Reviews:
...Moody-poetic nightworld artistry....[As savage as the] dozens of films over which it still casts its shadow... -- Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly
If elements of it seem overly familiar now, that's only because they were done first here, and picked up by every heist film that followed.
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SF Weekly
Rating: B+ --
The father of all caper films.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Viewers become something like collaborators, invested in working out what, say, that umbrella is going to be used for - and then pleased to discover whether we've gotten it right or not.
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Village Voice
Rating: 4/4 --
Jules Dassin doesn't waste much time in expressing exactly what he thinks of the criminals and gangster culture that rule his underworld.
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Slant Magazine
...One of the great crime thrillers, the benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against....A driving, compelling piece of work, redolent of the air of human frailty and fatalistic doom...
Los Angeles Times
The film turns moralistic and sour in the last half, when the thieves fall out.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
With the dramatic crime thriller RIFIFI, blacklisted American director Jules Dassin returned to the cinema triumphantly. In addition to directing, Dassin co-wrote the script and appeared (under the name Perlo Vita) as Cesar the Italian safecracker. Cesar is one of the gang formed by the gaunt Tony (Jean Sevais), who has just returned to Paris from prison. The others are family man Jo (Carl Möhner) and the ebullient Mario (Robert Manuel). The four men plan a jewelry heist--and the almost 30-minute long robbery scene at the center of the film has become one of the cinema's classic sequences. They break into an upstairs apartment, tie up the couple who live there, and smash through the floor--carefully collecting the debris in an umbrella. Then, they lower themselves into the jewelry store, drill through the safe, and return the way they came. Dassin forgoes both music and dialogue as he shows the robbery in meticulous detail--and the sequence is riveting. The gang has barely completed the job, when unplanned incidents threaten, the police appear unexpectedly, a rival gang gets wind of the robbery, there is a kidnapping, and in the skullduggery that follows, only the honor of the gang survives.
Keywords:
Thieves
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Jewels
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Paris, France
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Kidnapping
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Mobsters
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1950s
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Cars / Automobiles
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Essential Cinema
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