Le samourai

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Le samourai

Director:
Jean-Pierre Melville
105 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

In a career - defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor - sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture - with a liberal dose of Japanese lone - warrior mythology - maverick director Jean - Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Samourai defines cool.

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Details

Runtime:
105 min.

Genres:
Drama
Foreign Language

Country:
FRANCE

Language:
French

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau,author of Jean - Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
  • Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
  • Theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: a 29 - page booklet featuring film scholar DavidThomson, filmmaker John Woo, and selections fromMelville on Melville

 

 

 

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