Once again director Jean-Pierre Melville's love for dark blue and gray hues dominates his presentation. Watch "Army of Shadows" or "Le Samourai" for further evidence of his color method. Like "Le Samourai", this film also stars Alain Delon, and with a silly mustache, no less! Delon brims with the same curious intensity in both films - never smiling, always simmering. The extended, wordless heist that the film builds to is believably rendered and seems in part an homage to the similar action in "Rififi". If you admire Melville's films as I do you must be sure to make time for "Le Cercle Rouge".
Written 2/23/08
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