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Bob le flambeur

1956

Jean-Pierre Melville

Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, André Garret, Gerard Buhr ...

7.1

2,090

Film noir Bob, a old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides in spite of the warnings of a friend, a high official from the police, to rob a gambling casino in Dauville.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	'''Bob le Flambeur'' is a very funny, jaunty movie, and one can understand why Jean-Luc Godard, who was to make 'Breathless' just three years later, admired it so much"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"[The director's] rigidly classical style yields to a pleasant informality (...) The portrait of Pigalle after dark is superbly evocative and romantic."	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Peachment Time Out	"A wonderful movie with all the formal beauty, finesse and treacherous allure of green baize"	POS
United Kingdom	Jamie Russell BBC	"[Melville] plays with the conventions of the genre with a masterful touch, creating something altogether new (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"A must for those who like their crime capers cool and elegant."	POS

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