LE SAMOURAÏ
| 1967 (re-released in 2024) – 105′ – DRAMA, CRIME, THRILLER, CLASSIC.
Written by: Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin.
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville.
Starring: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jean-Pierre Posier, Jacques Leroy, Jacques Deschamps, André Thorent, Catherine Jourdan, Michel Boiron.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024 (Cannes Classic).
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture — with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology — maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï defines cool.