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Tag: Jean-Pierre Melville

Le Samouraï, 1967

December 23, 2017 (December 28, 2017) acquarello

Le Samouraï opens to a shot of rain beating onto the window of a darkened room. At the corner of the frame, a puff of smoke emanates from a lit cigarette. An occasional shrill chirp is heard from a caged bird. The rest is silence. An impassive man, Jef Costello (Alain Delon), rises from the […]

Directors, National CinemaFrench Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville

Bob Le Flambeur, 1955

December 23, 2017 acquarello

Even in the underworld of professional gangsters and organized crime, there exists an implicit social structure. At the top of this criminal hierarchy is Bob (Roger Duchesne), an impeccably dressed, well-mannered reformed bank robber with a penchant for, or rather an addiction to, gambling. In fact, so well regarded is he that even the police […]

Directors, National CinemaFrench Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville

The Silence of the Sea, 1947

December 23, 2017 (December 28, 2017) acquarello

In an idyllic provincial town of occupied France, two German soldiers come upon the secluded home of an old man (Jean-Marie Robian) and his niece (Nicole Stephane), in search of a boarding house. One evening, a German officer named Werner von Ebrennac (Howard Vernon) introduces himself as the new household tenant. Despite their deliberate silence […]

Directors, National CinemaFrench Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville

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