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03/26/09
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... [More]
Starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier, Caty Rosier
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Reviews for Le Samourai
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
No review available.
11/17/03
No review available.
08/22/03
Making films this good wasn’t a principle for Melville, it was a habit.
10/13/05
No review available.
03/08/08
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.
10/08/09
The film has been a tremendous influence to the crime drama genre.
03/20/04
Melville's film had a major influence in Hollywood.
06/24/06
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 CriticNo review available.
07/03/05
It 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
Top Critic[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 Critican enjoyably stylish entry in the French crime film tradition, but a decidedly minor one
08/27/06
Melville is much more interested in procedures than action. The film is so stripped down that we learn as much as we need to know about Jef in the film's first 15 minutes.
01/01/00
Top CriticAlain Delon, who was attacked by some narrow-minded reviewers in his day for being stiff, is perfectly cast here, displaying a cool, calm demeanor at first, then an equally calm desperation as the chase gets more intense.
01/01/00
By far the coolest.
10/14/05
Le samourai expresses a kind of loneliness to be sure, but it's that of a teenage male dreaming about Hollywood movies and their accoutrements -- penthouse apartments, acerbic cops, melancholy city streets, smoky card games, fancy jazz nightclubs.
01/01/00
Top CriticFedoras and trench coats. Film noir in cool blues and greens. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film Le Samourai is the real deal.
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