Watching Bob Le Flambeur in its newly restored 35mm print is a little of the old religion.
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04/07/02
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
One of the most curious yet pleasing of all the great French film noirs.
02/07/02
Top CriticGreat picture? No. Cool picture? Oui.
01/06/02
Top CriticDuchesne's smooth, handsome performance puts him in a league with cool guys like Bogart, Eastwood and Mitchum.
12/10/01
Picture postcard film noir.
11/20/01
Call it pulp fiction elevated to high art by a romantic sensibility, and you won' t be far off the mark.
11/05/01
Melville mixes an old-fashioned sureness of storytelling with some remarkably frank and modern touches of evil, sensuality and foreboding.
10/19/01
A wonderful noir film.
01/01/00
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