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.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- New video interviews with Rui Nogueira, author
of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau,
author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
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Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
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Theatrical trailer
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New and improved English subtitle translation
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PLUS: a 29-page booklet featuring film scholar David
Thomson, filmmaker John Woo, and selections from
Melville on Melville
Tone and style are everything with Le samouraï. Poised on the brink of absurdity, or a kind of attitudinizing male arrogance, Jean-Pierre Melville’s great film flirts with that macho extremism and slips over into dream and poetry just as we grow most alarmed. So the implacably grave coolness of Alain Delon’s >>>