It is one of the director’s very best films.
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03/10/03
Le Doulos (1962)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:18
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: This complex thriller follows the fatalistic relationship between two men: Maurice, a crook just out of prison and Silien (Belmondo), who may or may not be a Doulos (a kind of high-class informer).... [More]
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Michel Piccoli, Jean Desailly
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Another classic entry in the Melville Gallic noir canon, immaculately realised and bolstered by the strong presence of Belmondo.
05/24/03
Jean-Pierre Melville's existentialized gangster films are one of the glories of the French cinema, American forms played out with European self-consciousness.
01/01/00
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02/15/08
Top CriticAs good as Melville's setups are, the joys of the movie keep returning to Belmondo, then and now the king of effortless cool.
10/26/07
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07/14/05
Even back in 1962, Melville made the usual suspects feel new by wrapping them in gorgeous desolation.
07/18/07
Top CriticEven if you're not a fan of this sort of narrative trickery, it must be said that Le Doulos is simply a hell of a thriller ...
09/12/07
A tour de force.
09/07/07
Top CriticMr. Belmondo, as usual, maintains a sinister air, but it has no particular meaning, beyond showing that a crook is a crook is a crook.
05/09/05
A cool, classy treat.
06/29/07
Top CriticMelville's complete absorption of American crime movies is on full display in Le Doulos, but the film never feels like a French version of an American movie.
06/04/04
It's a dark post-noir thriller enhanced by superb performances and sparkling black and white cinematography.
05/12/04
A slippery, gripping cops-and-robbers thriller, full of twists and turns and ending with a tragicomic shootout you'll never forget.
06/27/07
Top CriticThe movie is a tough, stylish, deliciously complex labyrinth of underworld double-crosses that, like most of the other Melville noirs, ultimately celebrates honor among thieves.
09/06/07
Le Doulos roots itself in traditional noir themes of providence, of loyalty and betrayal, of male codes of honor, and ultimately of man's inability to escape his lot in life.
10/06/08
The macho criminal underworld of French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville has a nasty, nearly misogynistic edge here...
02/15/08
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10/18/08
Few films have focused so intently on proper underworld etiquette.
01/26/06
Melville is a mythmaker. His characters are archetypes of the cinema, specifically American cinema, though his outlook is unmistakably French, tinged with romanticism.
08/29/06
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