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Le Samourai (DVD)

Alain Delon (actor), Nathalie Delon (actor) and Jean-Pierre Melville (director)
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Review

Chicago Sun-Times, 06/08/1997, p.5, "...The film is masterful in its control of acting and visual style....LE SAMOURAI is as finished and polished as a film can be..."

Rolling Stone, 11/17/2005, p.144, 4 stars out of 5 -- "With minimal amounts of violence but maximum style....Simply, the coolest film ever."

New York Times, 11/08/2005, p.E5, "Melville's 1968 masterpiece....Minimal dialogue, a spare and moody jazz score and images drained of any color warmer than blue steel contribute to an overwhelming sense of repression and control."

Premiere, 12/01/2005, p.188, 4 stars out of 4 -- "[I]t's a nigh perfectly constructed film, and its finale remains one of the most stunning yet enigmatic twists ever committed to celluloid."

Los Angeles Times, 02/27/1997, p.F8, "...An austere poem of crime, a fatalistic exercise in myth-making and transcendent style..."

Release Note

DVD Features:
Notes: This is a new, restored high-definition digital transfer with new and improved English subtitle translation.

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Interviews - 1. Jean-Pierre Melville/Rui Nogueira & Ginette Vincendeau - Film Historians
2. Jean-Pierre Melvilee - Archival Excerpt
3. Alain Delon - Archival Excerpt
4. Cathy Rosier - Archival Excerpt
5. Nathalie Delon - Archival Excerpt
6. Francois Perier - Archival Excerpt
Text/Photo Galleries:
Essay by film scholar David Thomson
Reprinted tribute by filmmaker John Woo

Product Notes

When a stoic, icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub "hit" by a barroom pianist who doesn't let on to the cops, he discovers that he's being set up for something worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy darling of the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd. Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod.

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