12 Great Opening Shots
May 09, 2013
Film Info
- France
- 1967
- 105 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- French
- Spine #306
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 Samouraï defines cool.
Cast
| Jef Costello | Alain Delon |
| Superintendent | François Périer |
| Jane Lagrange | Nathalie Delon |
| Valérie, the pianist | Cathy Rosier |
| Man in the passageway | Jacques Leroy |
| Wiener | Michel Boisrond |
Credits
| Director | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Screenplay | Jean-Pierre Melville and Joan McLeod |
| Producer | Raymond Borderie and Eugène Lépicier |
| Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
| Assistant director | Georges Pellegrin |
| Music | François de Roubaix |
| Production design | François de Lamothe |
| Editing | Monique Bonnot and Yo Maurette |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- New video interviews with Rui Nogueira, author of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: a 29-page booklet featuring film scholar David Thomson, filmmaker John Woo, and selections from Melville on Melville
New cover by Michael Boland
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Le Samouraï: Death in White Gloves
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Tone and style are everything with Le samouraï. Poised on the brink of absurdity, or a kind of . . . Read more »
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Film Essays
Le Samouraï: Death in White Gloves
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Tone and style are everything with Le samouraï. Poised on the brink of absurdity, or a kind of . . . Read more »
