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03/26/09
Le Samourai (1967)
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Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 24
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: When a stoic, icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub "hit" by a barroom pianist who doesn't let on to the cops, he discovers that he's being set up for something... [More]
Starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier, Caty Rosier
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Reviews for Le Samourai
Top CriticNo review available.
03/08/08
A major work from a highly influential director -- Walter Hill and John Woo have both taken a lesson or two -- yet one whose films have been, until now, inexplicably neglected in the U.S.
08/29/06
Top Critican enjoyably stylish entry in the French crime film tradition, but a decidedly minor one
08/27/06
Melville's film had a major influence in Hollywood.
06/24/06
Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty and grace.
10/24/05
By far the coolest.
10/14/05
Making films this good wasn’t a principle for Melville, it was a habit.
10/13/05
No review available.
07/03/05
Le Samouraï's narrative players are designed for easy interpretation. This fosters the plot's complication, as well as Melville's inimitably stylistic filmmaking
07/20/04
The film has been a tremendous influence to the crime drama genre.
03/20/04
No review available.
11/17/03
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
06/20/03
[Melville's] style remains haunting and elegantly spare, just right for the kind of hit man who lives in silence, in bare and colorless surroundings, with a lonely caged bird.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
07/30/02
Even if its influence on contemporary filmmakers weren¹t so striking and acknowledged, Le Samourai would stand well enough on its own merits, strongly suggesting that some of the greatest films of the future may well come from the past.
06/05/02
One of the better examples of genre cinema.
08/20/01
To each his own. Filmmakers as diverse as Quentin Tarantino and Paul Schrader were influenced by Melville, and Hong Kong action director John Woo calls the film 'the closest to a perfect movie that I have ever seen.'
01/01/00
Top CriticIt combines stylish direction, an intelligent script, first-rate performances, and overpowering atmosphere into one of the most tense and absorbing thrillers ever to reach the screen.
01/01/00
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