Le Samouraï (Criterion Collection)

His only friend was his gun!
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 14, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1967
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 14,177
Rating: 3/4 -- an enjoyably stylish entry in the French crime film tradition, but a decidedly minor one Full Review
Cinema Writer
Aug 17, 2010
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. Full Review
Cinapse
Nov 2, 2018
Cold, masterly, without pathos, and not even particularly sympathetic; it has the noble structure of accuracy. Full Review
New Yorker
Jan 14, 2013
...An austere poem of crime, a fatalistic exercise in myth-making and transcendent style...
Los Angeles Times
Feb 27, 1997
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
Nov 8, 2005
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
Jan 1, 2000
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. Full Review
Newcity
Oct 25, 2017

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.

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  • UPC: 715515206716
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