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Le Samouraï @ Robert Classic French Film Festival
Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University
Webster Groves, MO
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Le Samouraï @ Robert Classic French Film Festival
Le Samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967, 107 min., color, Blu-ray projection source

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trenchcoat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director JeanPierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture  with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.

Writing in the New Yorker on the films original U.S. release, Penelope Gilliatt called Melville the poet of the implacable. In France he is thought of as the most American of directors, the man who has taken the B picture and the policier to new heights; to us he is apt to seem one of the most French, able to make something artful and full of art out of little, like a chef concocting an idyllic hors doeuvre out of mayonnaise and a few raw vegetables. She describes Le Samourai as a sort of meditation on solitude, embodied in a lonely, rigorous mercenary who assassinates to order, and praises the film as cold, masterly, without pathos, and not even particularly sympathetic; it has the noble structure of accuracy.

With an introduction and post-film discussion by Kathy Corley, professor of film in the Electronic and Photographic Media Department at Webster University.

Sponsored by Ann Repetto

Location

Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University (View)
470 E Lockwood Ave.
Webster Groves, MO 63119
United States

Categories

Film > Festivals
Film > Movies

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: Cinema St. Louis
On BPT Since: Mar 14, 2011
 
Cliff Froehlich
www.cinemastlouis.org/robe...


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