Critic Reviews
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Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
[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.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
One of the pleasures of Le Samourai is to realize how complicated the plot has grown, in its flat, deadpan way.
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
To each his own. Filmmakers as diverse as Quentin Tarantino and Paul Schrader were influenced by Melville, and Hong Kong action director John Woo calls the film 'the closest to a perfect movie that I have ever seen.'
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Cast
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Alain Delonas Jeff Costello -
Natalie Delonas Jan Lagrange -
Cathy Rosieras Valerie
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François Périeras The Inspector -
Michel Boisrondas Wiener -
George H. Billyas 2nd client in nightclub
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