Le Samourai

Pros: Delon's portrayal and Melville's style
Cons: None

I’ve been focusing heavily on the critically acclaimed classics since my time of returning to epinions with a specific goal; learning and understanding what separates the truly great movies from the mundane. Occasionally I’ve found myself ...

Pros: Delon as a cold killer in Melvilles noir
Cons: so cold, so intellectual, so French

The Criterion Collection has reissued this classic European film noir, long considered one of the classics of existential French films tipping a hat at the American genre. Alain Delon stars, as Jeff Costello is an assassin who lives a solitary life ...

Pros: Superb script, moody noir atmosphere, strong lead performance, strong direction, thematically profound, surprise twists
Cons: None

Le Samourai is a masterpiece in the thriller genre that puts most other thrillers to shame. It is both visually and aurally stylish, while providing a taut story with genuine surprises and a strong performance by a charming lead actor. The ...

Pros: Minimalist styled cat and mouse crime thriller
Cons: it's style might bug you.

Le Samourai The perfect film? No. Unique, influential, and an-Emperor-without-clothes? Yes John Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai is a film scholars' wet dream of a movie. It is stylish, accessible, well made, French and a product of ...

Pros: French, classy, understated, evocative.
Cons: Suspense factor lacking, a bit dated.

Running Time: 95 minutes Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Intro There is no greater solitude than the Samurai’s, unless perhaps it be that of the tiger in the jungle. I’m not a great fan of Delon’s - too co ...

Pros: Awesome film.
Cons: None whatsoever.

==Le Samourai== There is a small bird in a cage in a dull looking apartment room, a man wearing a trench coat and a felt hat, and he goes out of the room and adjusts his hat. The main actor then jumps into a car, with a ...

Pros: Style, grace, violence, acting
Cons: Can't think of any.

Jean-Pierre Melville is one of those directors, like Akira Kurosawa or John Woo, that American audiences just "get." We understand his lonely gangsters, his gray streets, his love of violence and stylized action. It is from American artists, after all, ...

Pros: A Perfect Movie
Cons: It hasn't been given the appreciation it deserves.

One of the best movies to come from the French New Wave movement, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai is remarkable. I’m not an authority on French New Wave cinema, but I do know a gem when I see it, and I also know that anyone with a background in...

Pros: A different kind of crime movie, realistic rather than melodramatic.
Cons: slow, deliberatly keeps some detail away from the viewer.

This is one of the strangest crime movies ever made. Strange, that is, if you’re used to more “complicated” affairs, like the kind of either old or new Hollywood, in which it would only be natural that a character’s motivation is clearly explained, and...

Pros: Atmosphere, the bird, the dialogue.
Cons: No.

Le Samourai (1967) is a beautiful French film from director Jean-Pierre Melville. This is a soft gangster movie, a little bit of psychological drama, and a real thriller.

Le Samourai is about a gangster who kills people for a living. When he...

Pros: Melville, Delon.
Cons: None.

This is a masterpiece of the French Crime Genre... Melville was of course a big fan of American cinema and you can see it in this movie... But Melville reinvents and bends the rules. Melville is Melville and he makes amazing movies... The whole film...