An overlooked masterpiece.
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03/03/08
Bob Le Flambeur (1955)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:27
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A compulsive gambler decides to try for the big time when he attempts to rob a heavily guarded casino. Superior progenitor of the "heroic" gangster/failed heist films popularized in America with... [More]
Starring: Roger Duchesne, Isabel Corey, Daniel Cauchy
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Reviews for Bob Le Flambeur
Melville at his best
08/10/07
This light, breezy 1955 heist film is probably the least characteristic movie Jean-Pierre Melville ever made.
08/01/07
Top CriticLagging direction, so-so thesping and usual femme and lowdown aspects of this type production make this an ordinary entry.
08/01/07
Top CriticAt once a charming entertainment, a resonant character study, an ironic morality tale, and a bittersweet celebration of Montmartre.
08/29/06
a generally absorbing and sometimes funny look at the capricious nature of Luck
08/20/06
A wonderful movie with all the formal beauty, finesse and treacherous allure of green baize.
06/24/06
Super cool.
11/07/05
No review available.
07/02/05
A must for those who like their crime capers cool and elegant.
04/23/05
Its realism is not the reality of life, but of the kind of movies that give shape to the disordered lives of the people who watch movies.
02/01/05
Top CriticUm verdadeiro clássico do gênero noir, o filme conta com um protagonista fascinante e um roteiro repleto de momentos brilhantes.
03/02/04
No review available.
09/05/03
Bob le Flambeur (1955) has a good claim to be the first film of the French New Wave.
07/08/03
Top CriticMelville's actually more interested in his central character's gentlemanly heroics and fractured obsession with risking everything at the roulette table.
02/11/03
In a world sliding toward self-interested decadence, Bob le Flambeur maintains his dignity and humanity in the face of long odds.
07/03/02
A brisk heist movie that embraces cinema's past and points toward its future.
06/20/02
less interested in the mechanics of the heist than ... the existential ramifications for the characters and how the sly intervention of fate
06/13/02
Textbook noir.
04/13/02
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