Fresh
Cold, masterly, without pathos, and not even particularly sympathetic; it has the noble structure of accuracy.
Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker
Le Samouraï
His only friend was his gun!
1967 · 1h 45m · GP
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Melville
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Le Samouraï
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jean-Pierre Melville Director
- Alain Delon as Jef Costello
- François Périer as Superintendant
- Nathalie Delon as Jane Lagrange
- Cathy Rosier as Valérie
- Michel Boisrond as Wiener
- Catherine Jourdan as Locker Room Girl
- Jean-Pierre Posier as Olivier Rey
- Robert Favart as Bartender
- Jacques Leroy as Walkway Man
- Roger Fradet as Inspector #1
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Delon's inscrutable presence adds to an unnerving atmosphere of anticipation. You feel that something bad could come crashing into the frame at any second. And you would be right.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
Melville's film had a major influence in Hollywood.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
[Melville's] style remains haunting and elegantly spare, just right for the kind of hit man who lives in silence, in bare and colorless surroundings, with a lonely caged bird.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Le samourai expresses a kind of loneliness to be sure, but it's that of a teenage male dreaming about Hollywood movies and their accoutrements -- penthouse apartments, acerbic cops, melancholy city streets, smoky card games, fancy jazz nightclubs.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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