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Le Samourai
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That Nearly Perfect Film
Le Samourai is a masterpiece in the thriller genre that puts most other thrillers to shame. It is both visually and aurally stylish, while providing a taut story with genuine surprises and a strong performance by a charming lead actor. The director of Le Samourai had a profound influence on a... Read full review »
Legendary French Cinema
I’ve been focusing heavily on the critically acclaimed classics since my time of returning to epinions with a specific goal; learning and understanding what separates the truly great movies from the mundane. Occasionally I’ve found myself bored and disappointed, but more often it’s been an... Read full review »
Le Samourai : French Crime Thriller a perfect film? W/O
Le Samourai The perfect film? No. Unique, influential, and an-Emperor-without-clothes? Yes
John Pierre Melville's Le Samourai is a film scholars' wet dream of a movie. It is stylish, accessible, well made, French and a product of American Noir influence and Japanese folklore. Because it's...
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Le Samourai - Dvd
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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Le Samourai (The Criterion Collection)
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays blue-eyed Jef Costello, a fedora and trench-coat-wearin g contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the smooth criminal. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology. (Criterion Collection)
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Samourai Criterion Collection DVD
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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| Stars | Alain Delon | |
| Actors | Jacques Leroy | |
| Available Formats | VHS | |
| Directors | Jean-Pierre Melville | |
| UPC | 037429208526 | |
| Genre | Foreign Films | |
| Subgenre | Suspense • Betrayal • Drama • French | |
| MPAA Rating | Not Rated | |
| Release Date | 1967 | |
| Running Time | 1hr 35min | |
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| Original Language | French | |
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| (02/27/1997, p.F8, Kenneth Turan): "...An austere poem of crime, a fatalistic exercise in myth-making and transcendent style..." | ||
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