Genre: Crime / Thriller
Duration: 105 minuten
Alternative title: The Godson
Country:
France / Italy
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Alain Delon, François Périer and Nathalie Delon
IMDb score:
8,0 (67.662)
Releasedate: 25 October 1967
Le Samouraï plot
"His only friend was his gun!"
Jef Costello (Alain Delon) is a lone assassin who becomes a target himself. He has to kill a nightclub owner. The clients are not happy with the way things are going and go after him.
Actors and actresses
Jef Costello
Superintendant
Jane Lagrange
Valérie
Wiener
Locker Room Girl
Olivier Rey
Bartender
Walkway Man
Inspector #1
Reviews & comments
Alathir
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It takes a while for the film to get going and you soon notice because of the little dialogue in the first fifteen minutes that the main character has not much to say. His stoic gaze harbors a cold soul. Almost on his robots, Alain Delon acts his way through the streets of Paris. Walking and running, we follow just about every move he does. Sometimes, until boredom, he walks up and down stairs. But the film intrigues because of the mysterious character of Jef Costello. The coat, the hat, the hands in the pockets and the gaze at infinity.
What a figure.
Also, I think Le Samourai is a "growth" in review. The class radiates from it, but maybe it needs to penetrate a little more. I did see the first 50 minutes twice in a row and cinematically this film is just great. First movie I see of Melville, seems to me a director I like.
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Point of View
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Also of influence on Le Samouraï : Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). This movie is less rigid overall than Melville's movie (certainly when it comes to the portrayal of the characters), but the meticulousness with which career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden)'s gang carries out a horse-racing robbery [/ spoiler] will certainly have appealed to the structopathic Melville.
Also in Kubrick's film, the emphasis is on the importance of professionalism (or the disastrous consequences when people fail to do so), and it becomes clear that there is no such thing as 'honour among thieves' and that even the best-prepared plans can go wrong - themes that also return in Le Samouraï.
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