- Actors: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy
- Directors: Jean-Pierre Melville
- Writers: Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin, Joan McLeod
- Producers: Eugène Lépicier, Raymond Borderie
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Criterion
- DVD Release Date: 25 Oct 2005
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000AQKUG8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 42,801 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Le Samourai is the ultimate in Jean Pierre Melville's essays on the gangster and his image, portraying a gun for hire-style assasin excellently played by the effortlessly cool Alain Delon. Every element of the film is near-perfect: the sparse, minimal style, the fantastic visuals - playing with stereotypical images of costumes, settings, Henri Decae's stunning cinematography, an awesome jazz score from Francois de Roubaix and an engaging noir-ish plot co-written by Melville. This film by one of France's ultimate auteurs is a clever and complex masterpiece.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Le Samourai, Jean-Pierre Melville's riff on This Gun For Hire, is another of Criterion's slightly disappointing recent discs. The film is superb and the extras are okay but not outstanding (Melville trying a little too hard not to blame rival studios for the fire that destroyed his own studio during filming is the highlight) but the transfer, while acceptable, is nowhere near the standard of the deleted French DVD, or even the Russian one for that matter, both of which are much sharper. It's still a great exercise in pure filmmaking, but I'm glad I didn't trade in the French PAL disc, which boasts superior picture quality, before seeing this transfer.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a great film from the french master Jean-Pierre Melville. The main character of the film is a criminal who does not know the ones he kills. He is just paid to kill. He doesn't know either the one who orders and pays for his crimes. He just receives the money, the order and the necessary equipment for each crime and just does it.
The loneliness of the main character justifies that the film has almost not dialogues as he has no one to speak with. And the masterful work of Melville is to make his film juste by images like in silent cinema.
The film is a masterpiece. I loved it.The Sicilian Clan [DVD] [1965]
The loneliness of the main character justifies that the film has almost not dialogues as he has no one to speak with. And the masterful work of Melville is to make his film juste by images like in silent cinema.
The film is a masterpiece. I loved it.The Sicilian Clan [DVD] [1965]
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Only Creature Lonelier is a Tiger in the Jungle
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Published 12 months ago by Stephanie DePue
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