 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 stream / download | 🎙️ EPISODE 673: 03.27.23 I'm struggling with this one because in terms of mood/vibe, it's mostly an A, but the plotting and resolution are at best a C (the deus ex machina setting up the conclusion with the nightclub owner's son smoking pot is ridiculous). Le Cercle Rouge, French New Wave father Jean-Pierre Melville's penultimate effort, is best known for its climactic heist sequence which is about half an hour in length and has almost no dialogue, and in truth, the best parts of this is where nothing much at all seems to be happening. There's hardly any standard exposition as events seem to play out in real time. |
| Seemingly asinine/unimportant details, like the pair of crooks' new associate and expert marksman recovering from the DTs, are treated like major plot points, while simple information like what exactly did either of these two guys do to land in police custody in the first place goes unanswered. Sure, the latter helps us understand this character better and we don't really need to know anything aside from "these are bad dudes," but — beyond even that — everything, both big and small, seems to be done in service of the visual first, regardless of how traditionally crucial something might seem. So we get a host of cool shots and scenarios, like said critter-clad alcoholic fever dream... |
And the opening sleeper car train escape...
The aforementioned jewel robbery is a wonderful slow burn as well, even if the thieves' masks look like this...
I doubt this is a film I'll revisit, but there's some great moments in these 140 minutes.
CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 672 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 674 ⫸
⫷ EPISODE 672 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 674 ⫸
Le Cercle Rouge (French pronunciation: [lə sɛʁkl ʁuʒ], "The Red Circle") is a 1970 crime film set mostly in Paris. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, François Périer and Yves Montand. It was released on October 20, 1970.
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