Le samouraï

Italy, France

1967

105 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Raymond Borderie, Eugène Lépicier

SCR Jean-Pierre Melville, Joan McLeod

CAST Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Michel Boisrond

ED Monique Bonnot, Yo Maurette

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology—maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le samouraï defines cool. —The Criterion Collection

Director

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) was an amateur filmmaker as a teenager who, after the start of World War II, began making his own independent short and feature films. He hit his stride in the ‘50s with his memorable adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s novel, Les Enfants Terribles, and, over the next 20 years, specialized in intelligent and exciting crime films, most notably Bob le Flambeur, Le Doulos (aka The Finger Man), Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge, and Un Flic. Melville also acted in his own Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan, as well as Cocteau’s Orphee, Jean-Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle (aka Breathless), and Claude Chabrol’s Landru (aka Bluebeard). He died in 1973.

(From http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:102465 )

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barbudean

3Feb12

Obra-prima. Sem pestanejar, o filme policial mais bem-feito que já vi. Direção sólida e certeira que aposta na tensão, nos poucos diálogos, no monocromatismo dos cenários e figurinos para criar uma atmosfera noir hipnótica. Tudo em perfeita sintonia com a atuação magistral do Alain Delon - frio e meticuloso como muitos Jef Costello que vieram a seguir. Não desgrudei os olhos da tela. Jean-Pierre Melville é um gênio.

Anthony

15Jan12

Inspired by American gangster films and schizophrenia, Melville uses tension instead of action with a character that influenced countless others (The Man With No Name trilogy,The Killer, Point Blank, and Drive) to create a stunning and capturing film that is more visual in it's approach and brilliant in its tone.

Sadhaka

15Jan12

"Il n'y a pas de plus profonde solitude que celle d'un samouraï, si ce n'est celle d'un tigre dans la jungle... peut être."

Yass

18Dec11

On en fait pu des comme ço, j'trouve. J'avais connu Ghost Dog comme étant une référence en la matière, mais je découvre enfin d'où viennent les origines du mythe. Alain Delon, une classe indécente.