Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 3
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.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 0
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.
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Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté) hides in the trunk of Corey's car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for an elaborate jewelry-store robbery. Police inspector Mattei (Bourvil) whom Vogel escaped in the beginning of the film is on the case trying to recapture the criminals. He is not opposed to using blackmail techniques to get answers out of the
Jan 1, 1970 Wide
Dec 1, 1990
Rialto Pictures
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Cast
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Alain Delon
Corey -
Bourvil
Mattei -
Gian Maria Volonté
Vogel -
Yves Montand
Jansen -
François Périer
Santi -
Paul Crauchet
The fence -
Paul Amiot
Chief of Internal Affai... -
Jean Champion
Guard -
Pierre Collet
The prison guard -
Robert Favart
Salesperson at Mauboiss... -
Roger Fradet
Policeman -
Jean Franval
Le tenancier d'hotel -
Jean Pignol
L'employe du greffe -
Yvan Chiffre
Policeman -
Robert Rondo
Policeman -
Andre Ekyan
Rico -
Yves Arcanal
Examining magistrate -
René Berthier
Police chief -
Jean-Marc Boris
Santi's son -
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (3) | DVD (12)
Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely poetic and philosophical obsessions.
Top CriticOne well-choreographed, beautifully shot and definitely cool cops-and-robbers film.
I can't say that Cercle Rouge is an overlooked masterpiece, but it's an amazing antidote to the current style of filmmaking in which silence and causal relationships are routinely disregarded.
If you ever wanted to know how to look good wearing a trenchcoat, lighting a cigarette, handling a revolver, drinking a whiskey or overpowering an armed guard, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 gangster drama is your guide.
The director's penultimate work.
A slo-mo gem of gangster cool.
A seminal work in the advancement of the crime film, the cool, solemn tragedy of Le Cercle Rouge rightly still makes most gangster films look like unfocused male fantasies and boyish temper tantrums.
Melville views it all at a distance and with a slow kind of precision that is missing from modern movies. There's no flash here, just criminal behavior observed with an eye for detail.
Luscious modern French noir.
A glistening gem among caper movies.
A seminal heist movie.
Jean-Pierre Melville is one of the most remarkable figures in world cinema, though he remains little known.
Among the many pieces of supplementary material in this two-disc set are excerpts from a 1970 documentary on director Jean-Pierre Melville's career.
You have to admire Jean-Pierre Melville's ambition to make a sophisticated "b-movie" that is moody, intelligent and consistently engaging.
A classic cornerstone of the heist genre from a master of the nouvelle vague.
The epitome of neo-noir stylishness.
Top-notch film noir with a bleak existential edge, executed with as much clinical precision as the crime it portrays.
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.
Apesar de jamais permitir que seus personagens falem muita coisa, Melville leva o espectador a conhecê-los através de suas ações, interações e olhares.
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Foreign Titles
- Vier im roten Kreis (DE)
- The Red Circle (Le Cercle Rouge) (CA)
