Le Samouraï (Criterion Collection)
His only friend was his gun!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 14, 2017
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon & François Périer | |
Performer: | Michel Boisrond | |
Directed by | Jean-Pierre Melville | |
Edited by | Monique Bonnot | |
Composition by | François de Roubaix | |
Director of Photography: | Henri Decaë |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
an enjoyably stylish entry in the French crime film tradition, but a decidedly minor one
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Cinema Writer
Minimal and breathtaking, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai features an icy and smoldering lead performance from one of the most beautiful human beings to ever grace the big screen: Alain Delon.
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Cinapse
Cold, masterly, without pathos, and not even particularly sympathetic; it has the noble structure of accuracy.
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New Yorker
...An austere poem of crime, a fatalistic exercise in myth-making and transcendent style...
Los Angeles Times
Melville's 1968 masterpiece....Minimal dialogue, a spare and moody jazz score and images drained of any color warmer than blue steel contribute to an overwhelming sense of repression and control.
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Le samourai expresses a kind of loneliness to be sure, but it's that of a teenage male dreaming about Hollywood movies and their accoutrements -- penthouse apartments, acerbic cops, melancholy city streets, smoky card games, fancy jazz nightclubs.
Chicago Reader
Rating: 10/10 --
Working with and against genre conventions, Melville's movies are hushed, deadpan abstractions of space and gesture, restrained, refined, a palette reduced to essential colors and compositions.
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Newcity
Product Description:
When a stoic, icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub "hit" by a barroom pianist who doesn't let on to the cops, he discovers that he's being set up for something worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy darling of the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd. Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod.
Keywords:
Suspense
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Murder
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Assassination
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Film Noir
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Recommended
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New Wave (Film)
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Theatrical Release
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- UPC: 715515206716
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