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Melville's masterpiece is pure seduction..., 24 October 2004
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i-grigoriev from Germany
This film starts off with the same sound like Sergio Leone's 'C'era un
volta il west', but it's just that here the sound is made not by a
plate, but a canary, the cold-blooded killer's canary.
This film was made in 1967, the French nouveau vague already apparent
all over the place, but with much more subtle undertones than, say, a
work by Truffaut.
No, Melville's films were old-school, but at the same time
revolutionary, in a delicate way. Take for example the 'chase' scene
through the Metro. Practically nothing happens: there are no gunfights,
no combat sequences, perhaps just a small chase. But it is Melville's
camera and Delon's inimitable performance that keep the audience
mesmerized all the way.
The camera practically flirts with the audience throughout the whole
movie, picking the most interesting angles and achieving so much
practically without any effort. Delon's character changes his
expression only once or twice during the movie, shoots faster than even
Leone's gunslingers and never forgets to feed his canary. To me, one of
the most accomplished antiheroes of the whole genre.
The dialogue is barely there, but when it is, then it's something you'd
probably wish you would have come up with yourself. It is a minimalist
work that achieves the absolute maximum. Simply put: one of the best
crime noirs ever made.
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