10/16/09

Le Samourai

Jean-Pierre Melville was perhaps the French equivalent of John Frankenheimer, making stylish thrillers that were light fluff, yet a bit more daring than Alfred Hitchcock's films.

Le Samourai starred Alain Delon, and is a solid film with a good premise, but one that shows the French never really were able to separate realism from Hollywood's version of it, at least in regards to gangsterism: