A seminal heist movie.
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03/03/08
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
96 %
Reviews Counted: 56 Fresh: 54 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Consensus:
Melville is at the top of his game, giving us his next-to-last entry into the world of deception, crime, and extreme suspense that made him a maestro of the French heist genre.
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Melville's hugely influential film remains a cornerstone of the crime genre. Recently released from prison, thief Corey (Alain Delon) finds himself caught up in a dangerous triangle with a mysterious woman (Gian Maria Volonte) and an ex-cop with some issues of his own (Yves... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand
Reviews
Top Critic
Jean-Pierre Melville is one of the most remarkable figures in world cinema, though he remains little known.
08/01/07
A classic cornerstone of the heist genre from a master of the nouvelle vague.
12/30/06
Top Critic
Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely poetic and philosophical obsessions.
02/09/06
Top Critic
Jean-Pierre Melville's terrifically enjoyable noir classic looks even cooler with this reissue.
07/08/03
Top Critic
One can still savour Melville's leisurely storytelling, the skilfully pared-down visual style, and the calmly understated central performances.
06/17/03
Top Critic
You have to admire Jean-Pierre Melville's ambition to make a sophisticated "b-movie" that is moody, intelligent and consistently engaging.
05/09/07
Top-notch film noir with a bleak existential edge, executed with as much clinical precision as the crime it portrays.
04/30/04
It's a languorous and uncompromising work that will drive some to distraction, but also a movie of dark, still beauty that will have others weeping tears of pure, noir joy.
03/19/04
Apesar de jamais permitir que seus personagens falem muita coisa, Melville leva o espectador a conhecê-los através de suas ações, interações e olhares.
01/19/04
An exercise in ultimate-cool where men follow a code of honor to wherever it might lead them.
01/05/04
Melville remained, in all his work and particularly his policiers, a classicist of calamity, a master of transforming the chaos of criminality into a form as refined as a sonnet or a minuet.
12/05/03
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10/11/03
Top Critic
A fitting capstone to the French director who melded icy hipster cool with a Parisian underground of cops, robbers, and the unbreakable, unknowable bond between the two.
10/01/03
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