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Critics Consensus: Melville is at the top of his game, giving us his next-to-last entry into the world of deception, crime, and extreme suspense that made him a maestro of the French heist genre.
Critic Consensus: Melville is at the top of his game, giving us his next-to-last entry into the world of deception, crime, and extreme suspense that made him a maestro of the French heist genre.
All Critics (59) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)
Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely poetic and philosophical obsessions.
One well-choreographed, beautifully shot and definitely cool cops-and-robbers film.
I can't say that Cercle Rouge is an overlooked masterpiece, but it's an amazing antidote to the current style of filmmaking in which silence and causal relationships are routinely disregarded.
Jean-Pierre Melville's terrifically enjoyable noir classic looks even cooler with this reissue.
The director's penultimate work.
A slo-mo gem of gangster cool.
It makes you side with the calm collected criminals. You truly believe they are all professionals and you want them to get away with the caper.
[Jean-Pierre Melville] gives the acquisitive fury of his characters a contemplative edge that has proven enduringly influential.
Melville views it all at a distance and with a slow kind of precision that is missing from modern movies. There's no flash here, just criminal behavior observed with an eye for detail.
Luscious modern French noir.
A glistening gem among caper movies.
A seminal heist movie.
A good French heist thriller from the 70's that's a slow-burn, but delivers in spades when it comes to tension and atmosphere. A daring jewelry theft is the highlight of the movie, and kept me on the edge of my seat.
Super Reviewer
Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) is a police procedural meets heist film that seems to be almost a playbook for all films like it that came afterwards. Whether it was a consious effort on other filmmaker's parts or developed along the lines by serendipity, the caper film was forever-influenced by the likes of people like Brian De Palma. To boot, there are masterful performances from both Alain Delon and Gian Maria, two men whose characters are brought together by circumstance but develop an unspoken friendship throughout the film that pays off beautifully in the end. Although the overall pace at times is a little lax, the film itself, in style, performance and execution, is a terrific piece of cinema.
The jewelry store scene alone is worth the four stars.
This movie makes the Fonz look like Peter Parker. Nothing is cooler than a Melville/Delon pairing.
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