Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection
by Jean-Pierre Melville
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Actor: Claude Cerval, Daniel Cauchy, Gerard Buhr, Guy Decomble, Isabelle CoreyDirector: Jean-Pierre Melville
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Henri Deca?
Composer: Jean Boyer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: So-So Film Noir At Best, Re-Make Better
Summary: 2 Stars
It isn't "cool" to like an American re-make over a European original, but that's the way I feel about this one. The remake, "The Good Thief," was simply more interesting. Perhaps since I saw the latter right before I saw "Bob," it made this one disappointing, since this did not have the story twists I found in the modern-day version. And, hopefully, another viewing will change my mind.
On a second viewing, I still thought it was so-so, at best, with Isabelle Corey the best thing about the film. Corey was nice on the eyes, to say the least. Roger Duchensne, as "Bob," the lead male, also was interesting.
The cinematography is pretty good but I've seen films noir done a lot better, not only in the photography but in heist stories. On the whole, I felt this was really overrated and overpriced DVD. Sorry.
Summary of Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection
Suffused with wry humor, Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur melds the toughness of American gangster films with Gallic sophistication to lay the roadmap for the French New Wave. As the neon is extinguished for another dawn, an aging gambler navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen, and na?ve associates while plotting one last score-the heist of the Deauville casino. This underworld comedy of manners possesses all the formal beauty, finesse and treacherous allure of green baize.A singular masterpiece that served as a clarion call for the coming French New Wave, this 1955 love letter to the city of Paris and the American urban noir films of the 1930s and 1940s is precisely the sort of cinematic consideration of genre influences that became the soul of early works by Jean-Luc Godard, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (a filmmaker so enamored of American culture he adopted the name of Moby Dick's author), Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) concerns a courtly gangster who plans on robbing a casino. But the film is less about the trappings of a conventional heist tale than about Melville's embrace of the form and his wistful weavings within it. The title character (Roger Duchesne) is almost a knight errant, with a visible gallantry and code of loyalty suggesting Melville's own dreams of film tradition, reinvented into something both faithful and new. A terrific experience and an important sliver of film history. --Tom Keogh
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