Le Samouraï

Film - 1967

8,5

104.3K

Le Samouraï it's a movie with Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Catherine Jourdan Full cast. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Original title Le Samouraï Genres Crime, Drama, Thriller.

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Francesca Arca

The title is the only thing wrong with an almost perfect film. "Le Samouraï" truly tells the meaning of a work that is much more than noir. Melville gets the best out of Delon by stopping him from acting. Impassive, frozen. Small gestures like obsessively adjusting the brim of your hat are pure cinema history. Read all

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Balkan Castevet

Wonderful film directed by the great Melville who manages to tell the loneliness and meticulousness of the killer Jef by referring to the rituals of the samurai. From the first shot the viewer can understand everything, Jef is lying on the bed while smoking a cigarette in a scene where the environment is of the room to dominate with strong blacks and grays and the feeling of cold coming from the windows; right from the start we understand how the protagonist is alone and lives his profession in habit. The grays and blacks are almost omnipresent in the film which give the film a funereal and at the same time glacial tone just like the killer. The photography, also through the shadows on the protagonist's face and the ability to juggle the shades of gray but also the musty colours, attributable to Jeff's house, always manages to give the right atmosphere. The staging is therefore excellent, all the settings offer paintings and atmospheres of the highest level, just think of Jef's advance in the bathrooms of the club with those gray checkered walls with the shadows in the background, but also at the same time in the club with those black and reflective walls, the police station but also the Jef's house itself is very interesting because it has dirty edges, we notice the rather worn hanging pans so it also contrasts with various films where the killer lives in large and luxurious houses. The fact that Jef has a bird, therefore caged, is emblematic in a case that in fact represents himself, the protagonist is imprisoned in this life, in his profession and even during the events of the film he is harassed by various parties, the police and the clan to which he responds. There is no lack of mirror games at the club where he commits the first murder or even when he enters Jane's house Read all

Giacomo Pescatore

Gabriele Cantoni

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After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.