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Editions Rene Chateau
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Featuring: Alain Delon
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
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Format: Blu-ray
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1.85:1
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French 1.0 PCM Mono
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English
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A
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1 Disc |
BD-50
Supplements
- New video interviews with Rui Nogueria, author of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- Melville-Delon: D’Honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on this film
- An essay by film scholar David Thomson, plus an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo and excerpts from Melville on Melville
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