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Le doulos

Le doulos (The Finger Man)

1962

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Michel Piccoli, Monique Hennessy ...

7.6

2,110

Film noir. Mystery. Thriller Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend Silien brings him the needed equipment. But Silien is a police informer...

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a very distinctive movie, although not as good, for me, as Melville’s 'Le Samourai' or 'Army of Shadows' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The story eases and lurches, at times mechanistically, but what sticks and sticks hard is the way Melville fashions an entire world out of a threadbare room"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Terrific performances, and equally terrific camerawork from Nicolas Hayer - more gris than noir - conjure a rivetingly treacherous, twilit world"	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"[Its] deliberate narrative confusion between good and bad is seductively expressed in its miasmatic atmosphere (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"Flawed but fascinating (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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