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Majorly stylish, Bob le Flambeur is a cool homage to American gangster films and the presage to French New Wave mode of seeing.
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This light, breezy 1955 heist film is probably the least characteristic movie Jean-Pierre Melville ever made. Aug 1, 2007 | Full Review…
This light, breezy 1955 heist film is probably the least characteristic movie Jean-Pierre Melville ever made.
Dave Kehr
Lagging direction, so-so thesping and usual femme and lowdown aspects of this type production make this an ordinary entry. Aug 1, 2007 | Full Review…
Lagging direction, so-so thesping and usual femme and lowdown aspects of this type production make this an ordinary entry.
Variety Staff
A wonderful movie with all the formal beauty, finesse and treacherous allure of green baize. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
A wonderful movie with all the formal beauty, finesse and treacherous allure of green baize.
Its realism is not the reality of life, but of the kind of movies that give shape to the disordered lives of the people who watch movies. Feb 1, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
Its realism is not the reality of life, but of the kind of movies that give shape to the disordered lives of the people who watch movies.
Vincent Canby
Bob le Flambeur (1955) has a good claim to be the first film of the French New Wave. Jul 8, 2003 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Bob le Flambeur (1955) has a good claim to be the first film of the French New Wave.
Roger Ebert
Melville's actually more interested in his central character's gentlemanly heroics and fractured obsession with risking everything at the roulette table. Feb 11, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Melville's actually more interested in his central character's gentlemanly heroics and fractured obsession with risking everything at the roulette table.
Jamie Russell
Bob is the perfect Jean-Pierre Melville hero...and Bob le flambeur (Bob the gambler) is about as characteristic a Melville movie as you'll ever see. Jul 9, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Bob is the perfect Jean-Pierre Melville hero...and Bob le flambeur (Bob the gambler) is about as characteristic a Melville movie as you'll ever see.
Sarah Boslaugh
Melville and his characters were wont to mutter sour-sweet epigrams about trust and loyalty, like "If there are two of you, one will betray." ... Nobody's perfect; this curtain line is. The lasting beauty is plain to see. Feb 22, 2018 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
Melville and his characters were wont to mutter sour-sweet epigrams about trust and loyalty, like "If there are two of you, one will betray." ... Nobody's perfect; this curtain line is. The lasting beauty is plain to see.
Ray Pride
Jean-Pierre Melville's sly and svelte human comedy strikes an articulate cinephiliac give-and-take Jan 20, 2010 | Full Review…
Jean-Pierre Melville's sly and svelte human comedy strikes an articulate cinephiliac give-and-take
Fernando F. Croce
An overlooked masterpiece. Mar 3, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An overlooked masterpiece.
Film4 Staff
Melville at his best Aug 10, 2007 | Rating: 3/5
Melville at his best
Boo Allen
At once a charming entertainment, a resonant character study, an ironic morality tale, and a bittersweet celebration of Montmartre. Aug 29, 2006 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
At once a charming entertainment, a resonant character study, an ironic morality tale, and a bittersweet celebration of Montmartre.
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