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
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Luscious modern French noir.
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A glistening gem among caper movies. Full Review |
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A seminal heist movie. Full Review |
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Jean-Pierre Melville is one of the most remarkable figures in world cinema, though he remains little known. Full Review |
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83/100 |
You have to admire Jean-Pierre Melville's ambition to make a sophisticated "b-movie" that is moody, intelligent and consistently engaging. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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4/5 |
A classic cornerstone of the heist genre from a master of the nouvelle vague. Full Review |
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Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely poetic and philosophical obsessions. Full Review |
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A- |
The epitome of neo-noir stylishness. Full Review |
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Top-notch film noir with a bleak existential edge, executed with as much clinical precision as the crime it portrays. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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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An exercise in ultimate-cool where men follow a code of honor to wherever it might lead them. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Melville’s film is a criminal masterpiece. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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One well-choreographed, beautifully shot and definitely cool cops-and-robbers film. Full Review |
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