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Le Samourai

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Le Samourai (1967)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:25

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... 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 worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy darling of the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd. Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod. [More]

Starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier, Caty Rosier

Starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier, Caty Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Michel Boisrond

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Composer: Francois De Roubaix
Story: Joan McLeod

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Oct 18, 2005

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Delon's inscrutable presence adds to an unnerving atmosphere of anticipation. You feel that something bad could come crashing into the frame at any second. And you would be right.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
10/08/09
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
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No review available.

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03/08/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/29/06
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an enjoyably stylish entry in the French crime film tradition, but a decidedly minor one

Full Review Source: Perihelion Journal | comment Comment
08/27/06
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Perihelion Journal

Melville's film had a major influence in Hollywood.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out

Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty and grace.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
10/24/05
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

By far the coolest.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
10/14/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Making films this good wasn’t a principle for Melville, it was a habit.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
10/13/05
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

No review available.

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07/03/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Le Samouraï's narrative players are designed for easy interpretation. This fosters the plot's complication, as well as Melville's inimitably stylistic filmmaking

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
07/20/04
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

The film has been a tremendous influence to the crime drama genre.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
03/20/04
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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No review available.

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11/17/03
Bryant Frazer
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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06/20/03
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

[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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.

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06/05/02
Wade Major
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine

One of the better examples of genre cinema.

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08/20/01
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

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.'

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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