I've never seen anyone mention Le Samouraï but I just found it randomly and it's the most suave and cool movie ever made. What are other essential Melville or Alain Delon films? I am thinking of watching Purple Noon, the original Talented Mr. Ripley (it was a remake, who knew?)
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Le Cercle Rogue (the red circle) is cool too although I'm not sure what the title quote from the Buddha is supposed to mean.
>title quote from the Buddha
Nothing, Melville pulled it out of his ass just like the quote from Le Samurai.
"When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever their diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle."
Yea it does seem a little tacky. Melville's movies seem to get worse as he aged, makes sense considering he made something so great not too far into his career.
Now that's a hot take. From what I've seen the vast majority of people seem to agree that Melville got progressively better (I never bothered with his pre-60s films either)
I'm talking about the stuff he made after Samourai getting worse. His final films seem like rehashes
It’s fricking boring dude
What's better? Also filtered. It's one of the most captivating and beautiful movies I've ever seen. Easily in my top 5. Have you ever seen Suzuki's Yakuza films like Tokyo Drifter? Those films and Le Samourai feel like Tarantino but better
Seijin Suzuki does seem similar to Melville. I wonder if they talked about each other
I love neo noirs but this was such a snooze fest
Le doulos is a cool one I’ve rewatched numerous times, might be my favorite idk. Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Looks cool I'll check it out
It’s been out there, 4K restored for a while, newest version looks great. A neat film noir.
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Most people on this board can't appreciate artsy films with no dialogue
Alain Delon stars in L'Eclisse, which is part of Antonioni's alienation film trilogy. They're a good watch.
Thanks for the recs bros.
>I've never seen anyone mention Le Samouraï
Howdy zoomerino
>I've never seen anyone mention Le Samouraï
that's because youre a newhomosexual
Watch Les félins for his maximum charm on screen
Scorpio with burt lancaster, cold war kino.
Dont watch girl on a motorcycle (aka naked under leather) unless you want to die of cringe
Army of Shadows is easily the best from Melville imo. It’s amazing. Didn’t care for Le Samurai that much tbh.
>I've never seen anyone mention Le Samouraï
Welcome to Cinemaphile
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I tried watching this movie but couldn't stop laughing at the fedora tipping main character and turned it off.
Everyone in the movie looks completely natural in a fedora though. The reason Fedoras don't work anymore is BPA leakage mimicking estrogen and stunting all males since around the year 2000. It's sad.
Army of Shadows
Bob le Flambeur
Le cercle rouge
>I am a 10/10 man with a 10/10 gf, a lucrative job and plenty of disposable income
>I am le depressed! I want to heckin die because... I just do okay!
>Melville
L'armée des ombres, le cercle rouge, le deuxième souffle
>Delon
L'eclisse, il gattopardo, mr klein
Back in the 90s my dad tried to tell me about this movie. I was too much of a shitty little kid to listen to him. He was really into spy/assassin movies for some reason, The Day of the Jackal, Hunt for Red October.
I watched this with my 10 year old brother and for some reason he loved it despite being a turbo zoomer
It's stylish and masculine, makes sense that he likes it bc it provides a clear line of masculine personality
Swann in Love is my favorite of his because I am a fan of Proust. He was cast as De Charlus since he was a famous heartthrob so I suppose the director Volker Schlondorff wanted to turn the typecast on its head by having him play a notorious gay guy.
Looks cool I'm a fan of Proust too. Any thoughts on The Leopard with Delon? It looks like a kinda cool historical drama featuring him
I’ve seen that and wasn’t too thrilled with it. Kinda dragged on a bit. Definitely worth watching if you want something with Delon though since it’s one of his key roles.
For me it's Le Gang
You should check Rocco and his brothers
Second thread ive seen about it in 12 hours. It's also always recommended in french movie threads.
I posted this same thread at like 1 am yesterday and didn't get any replies, hence why I posted it again
>tfw only found about this film because of Mad Men
>it's one of my absolute favorites
He's literally me if I actually had anything to care about in life.
I've never had a movie curse my inability to look a day over 18 in my life. I would say I can't look a day over 21 but the only reason people think I'm 21 and not 18 is because aging has slowed to such a crawl that people expect most people under 25 to look like children these days.
Curse these hormone ruining chemicals, I want to look good in a trench coat and fedora unironically.
>I've never seen anyone mention Le Samouraï
lurk more homosexual