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Film · 1967 · Neo-noir

Le Samourai

Name: Le Samourai
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Genre: Neo-noir, Crime thriller, Crime
Released: 1967

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

1967

★ 8.1 editorial score

Every filmmaker who has ever shot a hitman putting on a hat is quoting this: Melville stripped the crime film down to ritual, silence and a trench coat.

Genre

Neo-noir Crime thriller Crime

Subject

Hitmen Isolation Betrayal

Setting

Paris

Time

1967Depicts 1960s

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