{"id":8397,"date":"2018-09-12T23:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T23:46:17","slug":"melvilles-le-samourai-a-look-back-at-the-classic-french-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/melvilles-le-samourai-a-look-back-at-the-classic-french-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Melville\u2019s Le samoura\u00ef \u2013 A Look Back at the Classic French Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8409\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-2.jpg\" alt=\"Le Samourai movie poster\" width=\"520\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-2.jpg 520w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-2-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Directed by<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0578483\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean-Pierre Melville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenplay<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0578483\/?ref_=tt_ov_wr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean-Pierre Melville<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0670958\/?ref_=tt_ov_wr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georges Pellegrin<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0572819\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joan McLeod<\/a>: novel, uncredited)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cinematography<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005684\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henri Deca\u00eb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editing: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0095093\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monique Bonnot<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0561070\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yolande Maurette<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006262\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fran\u00e7ois de Roubaix <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cast<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001128\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alain Delon,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0673749\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fran\u00e7ois P\u00e9rier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0217677\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathalie Delon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0431129\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine Jourdan<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Melville\u2019s Le samoura\u00ef<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Walt Mundkowsky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-73) is hard to pigeonhole. He operated outside established channels (eventually running his own studio) yet he employed movie stars. An inspiration to the New Wavers who liberated French cinema, he remained a consciously classical technician. Abroad he\u2019s best remembered for a trilogy of gangster dramas \u2014 <b><i>Le doulos<\/i><\/b> (1962), <em><b>Le deuxi\u00e8me<\/b><\/em> <em><b>souffle<\/b><\/em> (1966) and <b><i>Le samoura\u00ef<\/i><\/b> (1967). The last of these is the easiest of the trio to admire \u2014 character, structure, and surface are seamlessly joined.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8401\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-1.jpg\" alt=\"Alain Delon in a scene from Le Samourai\" width=\"850\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-1-600x324.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-1-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-1-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8402 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-2.jpg\" alt=\"Alain Delon as contract killer Jef Costello in Le Samourai\" width=\"850\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-2-600x325.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-2-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-2-768x417.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jef Costello is a contract killer. He daringly completes his current assignment (a nightclub owner) during business hours, relying on an airtight alibi to prevent capture. His girlfriend Jeanne swears that he was with her until Mr. Wiener, the elegant gent who keeps her, arrived. He sees Jef leaving the building, and fingers him for the police. Wiener hopes to sink Jef (he knows his mistress has been deceiving him), but he unwittingly supports the alibi. Even so, the police inspector thinks Jef guilty and has him watched. Things start to crumble for Jef when the bigwig who ordered the hit gets nervous about the cops and tries to pay him off with a bullet. Jef moves ahead on two fronts: to evade arrest while tracking down his employer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8403 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-3.jpg\" alt=\"Alain Delon as Jef Costelo in Le Samourai\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-3-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-3-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Professionalism is a byword in Melville\u2019s moral universe. Jef not only kills to live, but lives to kill. He stays in a dingy hotel, with a pet bullfinch for company. (The bird is probably closer to him \u2014 and more loyal \u2014 than any human.) From the moment early on when he refuses to acknowledge a beautiful woman\u2019s smile from a passing car, Jef is sealed within a circle of obsessions. His connection to Jeanne fascinates in its ambiguity; not precisely romantic, it bristles with crossed wires \u2014 she wants to be made useful, as he strives to shield her from danger.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8404\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-4.jpg\" alt=\"Alain Delon\" width=\"847\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-4.jpg 847w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-4-600x328.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-4-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Alain-Delon-Le-Samourai-4-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Melville\u2019s extraordinary goal is evident in the opening frames: to make a black-and-white film in color. Except for the subway scenes (shot documentary-style), the interiors conform; grays and browns dominate. Outside views are trickier, but the overcast skies (easy to locate in Paris) and nighttime settings help. (Fran\u00e7ois de Roubaix\u2019s music also uses subtle colors, led by a dry trumpet and harp.) The cutting is so assured that the long stretches without dialogue seem pointed and shapely, as the director links his cops and crooks by activity and behavior.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8400\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-3.jpg\" alt=\"Alain Delon and Nathalie Delon in a scene from Le samoura\u00ef\" width=\"850\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-3-600x330.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-3-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Le-Samourai-3-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each panel of Melville\u2019s triptych highlights a particular actor, and <b><i>Le samoura\u00ef <\/i><\/b>is the ideal arena for Alain Delon\u2019s chilly perfection and inward-looking gaze. The less-is-more aesthetic extends to the female co-stars. Nathalie Delon (Alain\u2019s wife at the time) projects nobility and strength as the steadfast Jeanne, and Cathy Rosier\u2019s sleek nightclub pianist is both ally (refusing to identify Jef) and rival. The inspector contains as much of Melville as does Jef, and Fran\u00e7ois P\u00e9rier is brainy, commanding and crafty. It\u2019s tough to evade the shadow of Ren\u00e9 Descartes (1596-1650) in describing him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8413\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8413\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville.jpg\" alt=\"French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jean-Pierre Melville<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back when, I bet a friend that I could review this without mentioning its camerawork by Henri Deca\u00eb \u2014 important to Melville as early as 1949 (<b><i>Le silence de la mer<\/i><\/b>) and 1950 (<b><i>Les enfants terribles<\/i><\/b>), and a key figure for the French New Wave and others. Zero interest in winning that one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8412\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8412\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-Alain-Delon.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Pierre Melville and Alain Delon\" width=\"850\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-Alain-Delon.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-Alain-Delon-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-Alain-Delon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jean-Pierre-Melville-Alain-Delon-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jean-Pierre Melville and Alain Delon worked on three films together<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-73) is hard to pigeonhole. He operated outside established channels (eventually running his own studio) yet he employed movie stars. An inspiration to the New Wavers who liberated French cinema, he remained a consciously classical technician. Abroad he\u2019s best remembered for a trilogy of gangster dramas \u2014 Le doulos (1962), Le deuxi\u00e8me souffle (1966) and Le samoura\u00ef (1967).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":8401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[305,1627,1628,1123,1624,1625,508,1626],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-capsule-cinema","tag-alain-delon","tag-cathy-rosier","tag-francois-perier","tag-french-cinema","tag-jean-pierre-melville","tag-le-samourai","tag-movie-review","tag-nathalie-delon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Melville\u2019s Le samoura\u00ef \u2013 A Look Back at the Classic French Noir -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Filmmaker Jean-Pierre 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