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
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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 |
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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 |
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3/4 |
an enjoyably stylish entry in the French crime film tradition, but a decidedly minor one Full Review |
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Melville's film had a major influence in Hollywood. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty and grace. Full Review |
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By far the coolest. Full Review |
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Making films this good wasn’t a principle for Melville, it was a habit. Full Review |
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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 |
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The film has been a tremendous influence to the crime drama genre. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
[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 |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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8/10 |
One of the better examples of genre cinema. Full Review |
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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 |
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