Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection
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Movie Reviews of Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Great Even Today
Summary: 5 Stars
The influence of this film on Jean Luc Godard and the French New Wave has been well documented. A caper flick with great noir atmospherics and unique early 1950s Paris and Deauville scenery. Simply stated, this is an important film in the history of World Cinema, but most important, it remains a very enjoyable film in its own right some 50 years later. Don't miss this one!Movie Review: One of the great French films
Summary: 5 Stars
'Bob le Flambeur', along with Melville's other classic 'Le Samourai', ranks among my favorite films of all time. Melville put beauty in the life of a criminal in the same way Jean Genet brought immortality to his imprisoned heroic figures. But Bob le Flambeur is someone who lives by a certain ethical code - like Marlon Brando's character in 'the Godfather' he only wants to look out for those who are close to him - and he does not seem like the kind of guy who would start a fight unless someone came looking for trouble. This is classic noir - something the French New Wave would soon embrace (not nearly as effectively as Melville does here). But despite all the noir elements of the movie, Melville seems to be equally concerned with making his characters human beings. He shows them doing their daily activities - like brushing there teeth - these people are easy to identify with. I would recommend this movie to anyone - but especially those who find it hard to watch big box office studio productions that repeat the same tired plots and techniques only to lose sight of what really makes a film resonate. Movie Review: Eh.
Summary: 3 Stars
The black and white photography was good, the acting was good, the story was interesting but yet the whole thing kinda left me flat.
Bob, an ex-bank robber and now full-time gambler, does nothing but gamble and smoke 14,000 cigarettes a day. His little band of shady friends pretty much do nothing also, although they might smoke more than he does. One day Bob runs out of money so he decides to rob a big casino. He recruits some of his drinking buddies and they start to prepare for the big event. Things don't really go as they planned.
That's a good idea for a movie and since Criterion put out the DVD I figured I was in for a treat, but like I said earlier the whole thing just left me "Eh.". The ending was ironic, but overall a letdown. Boring.
Movie Review: A cool film with great scenes.
Summary: 5 Stars
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
Bob le Flambeur, also known as "Bob the Gambler" is said to be the foundation of the French new wave movement.
It is about a retired gangster running out of money and decides to rob a casino. The film reminds me of the films "Rififi" and both versions "The Italian Job." It is well written and has some great scenes including a major winning streak at baccarat at the casino
There are also some nice special features. There is a theatrical trailer, a radio interview with director Jean-Pierre Melville and a video interview with actor Daniel Cauchy.
This is a great film!
Movie Review: A love letter for Paris!
Summary: 5 Stars
Since some years ago , Bob , a delinquent in the fifties great amateur to game has been a timeless looser . He meets a teenager just before to fall in prostitution and decides rescue her , he gives some money and receives her in his home . But at once Paulo a orphan and homeless young man will fall in love with her . Very soon he will be inspired for a ambitious plan , and organizes with supreme shyness and coordination every little detail concerned with the master robe but ironically the fate once more makes a raid . the rest runs for your own .
This film constitutes the first policiac title of Jean Pierre Melville and stamps the irruption amazingly mature of a style simply unconfoundable. The firmness of its building and the perfection of its calligraphy are factors which convert it in an self determined entity valuable and bty itself, despite of the relayionship that you can establish with other next work.
Bob le flambeur attends more the instant than the globality , it is much more a cronicle than a spectacularly dramatized account. The movie seems to be made under the fascination of the american cinema . The film gives out a freeing and liberty , such trust in the expressive power of the image , made in equal parts of rules knowing and instint for ignore them . The raccords and the axis are not at all barriers which imprison the narrative freedom .
You will watch a Montmartre flood of heterogeneous night fauna . What Bob experiences in his lucky game was described for Kafka as the most dangerous of the tasks: to remeet and remake oneself in front of a mirror image pierced in a fragment of crystal .
The tragedy is variegated with a comedy patine , which turns in a more real perspective with that life tricks , these unknown crossroads set in the road as an army of naked demons. Undoubtly we are in the presence of a immortal work , timeless and deeply revealer of those times . And notice that Rififi was released the same year too .
The candor of the characters depicted and the soft breeze of a nocturnal Paris with its little madness and and caprices make of this film a supreme jewel and one of the pioneers films of the fifties in all the story of the cinema