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Le Doulos (1962)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:7
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
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).... 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). Maurice, wasting no time, immediately begins to put himself on the wrong side of the law, setting up a number of robberies with the help of Silien, whom he begins to suspect is a police informer. A spellbinding New Wave noir from director Jean-Pierre Melville (LE SAMOURAI). [More]
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Michel Piccoli, Jean Desailly
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Michel Piccoli, Jean Desailly, Fabienne Dali, Rene Lefevre
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Producer: Carlo Ponti, Georges De Beauregard
Screenwriter: Jean-Pierre Melville
Composer: Paul Misraki
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Oct 7, 2008
Reviews for Le Doulos
As good as Melville's setups are, the joys of the movie keep returning to Belmondo, then and now the king of effortless cool.
Even back in 1962, Melville made the usual suspects feel new by wrapping them in gorgeous desolation.
A slippery, gripping cops-and-robbers thriller, full of twists and turns and ending with a tragicomic shootout you'll never forget.
Mr. Belmondo, as usual, maintains a sinister air, but it has no particular meaning, beyond showing that a crook is a crook is a crook.
Jean-Pierre Melville's existentialized gangster films are one of the glories of the French cinema, American forms played out with European self-consciousness.
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