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10/18/08
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:54
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: Melville is at the top of his game, giving us his next-to-last entry into the world of deception, crime, and extreme suspense that made him a maestro of the French heist genre.
Theatrical Release:Jan 10, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Melville's hugely influential film remains a cornerstone of the crime genre. Recently released from prison, thief Corey (Alain Delon) finds himself caught up in a dangerous triangle... [More]
Starring: Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Reviews for Le Cercle Rouge
Luscious modern French noir.
05/09/08
A glistening gem among caper movies.
03/03/08
A seminal heist movie.
03/03/08
Jean-Pierre Melville is one of the most remarkable figures in world cinema, though he remains little known.
08/01/07
You have to admire Jean-Pierre Melville's ambition to make a sophisticated "b-movie" that is moody, intelligent and consistently engaging.
05/09/07
No review available.
02/25/07
A classic cornerstone of the heist genre from a master of the nouvelle vague.
12/30/06
Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely poetic and philosophical obsessions.
02/09/06
The epitome of neo-noir stylishness.
10/31/05
No review available.
10/06/05
Top-notch film noir with a bleak existential edge, executed with as much clinical precision as the crime it portrays.
04/30/04
It's a languorous and uncompromising work that will drive some to distraction, but also a movie of dark, still beauty that will have others weeping tears of pure, noir joy.
03/19/04
Apesar de jamais permitir que seus personagens falem muita coisa, Melville leva o espectador a conhecê-los através de suas ações, interações e olhares.
01/19/04
An exercise in ultimate-cool where men follow a code of honor to wherever it might lead them.
01/05/04
Melville remained, in all his work and particularly his policiers, a classicist of calamity, a master of transforming the chaos of criminality into a form as refined as a sonnet or a minuet.
12/05/03
Melville’s film is a criminal masterpiece.
11/16/03
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10/11/03
A fitting capstone to the French director who melded icy hipster cool with a Parisian underground of cops, robbers, and the unbreakable, unknowable bond between the two.
10/01/03
One well-choreographed, beautifully shot and definitely cool cops-and-robbers film.
09/05/03
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