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Touchez pas au grisbi

Touchez pas au grisbi (Grisbi: Hands Off the Loot)

1954

Jacques Becker

Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli ...

7.3

1,337

Thriller. Drama Jean Gabin stars as Max, a suave, smooth, elder statesman of a gangster who still manages to hook a pretty young damsel on his arm when he strolls into his favorite restaurants and nightclubs. Max belongs to the old world of criminals, where a romantic code of loyalty rules, but he's confronted by the postwar generation of ruthless, ambitious thugs when affable drug dealer and aspiring mob boss Angelo (Lino Ventura) discovers the secret ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"Jacques Becker, who did such a fine job in painting the turn-of-the-century apache milieu in 'Casque D’Or', brings the same care and psychological overtones"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Gabin plays a man of few words, who displays warmth that is real but understated (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A wonderful treasure (...) Unbeatable as a gripping story of loyalty, betrayal and the price of friendship in the Parisian underworld"	POS
United States	Terrence Rafferty The New York Times	"There are more powerful gangster movies than this, but I don't know of one with a more complex or a more delicate bouquet."	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Petit Time Out	"Becker's film, full of neat angles and delightful little bits of business, is laconic and admirably methodical."	POS
United States	David Mermelstein The Wall Street Journal	"Impeccably precise (...) Characters both well-limned and inordinately sympathetic."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"One of the great movies about male friendship"	POS

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