Classe Tous Risques - Criterion Collection

Classe Tous Risques - Criterion Collection
by Claude Sautet

Classe Tous Risques - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Cheung Lung, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Queen Kong, Sandra Milo
Director: Claude Sautet
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet
Composer: Georges Delerue
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion

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Movie Review: A French Gangster Film Upstaged in 1960 by Godard's Breathless.
Summary: 5 Stars

Perhaps best known for his superb 1991 film, Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter), Claude Sautet's earlier, crisp black-and-white, 60s gangster film, Classe tous risques (Consider All Risks), stars Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo (two icons of French cinema), and Sandra Milo. Banned from 1961 to 1968, and based on a novel by Jos? Giovanni, the film has a Jean-Pierre Melville-Bob le Flambeur influence. After pulling off a daring payroll heist on the streets of Milan (where he has been hiding for roughly a decade), French fugitive gang boss Abel Davos (Ventura) returns to Paris, despite a French death sentence. Before completing this one last job of his career, Davos puts his Italian wife Therese (Simone France) and two sons on a train to France. Then his own Milan getaway goes awry, and Abel and his partner in crime, Raymond (Stan Krol), wind up on a boat to Nice. Hunted by the police, Davos' former friends send a seemingly inexperienced kid in a loud, tweed jacket named Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo of Godard's Breathless) to accompany him back to Paris. Initially insulted by what he perceives to be an act of dishonor, Abel soon warms up to the kid, who has a certain savoir fair with the French girls (Milo). Although Belmondo received all the attention for his performance in Breathless, which was released in 1960--the same year as Sautet's film, Classe tous risques remains an undiscovered French gem of ganster film that will appeal to anyone who likes French cinema in the tradition of Bob le Flambeur, Le Samourai, Rififi, or Le Cercle Rouge.

The Criterion edition of this film features a newly restored transfer; excerpts from Claude Sautet ou la magie invisible, a 2003 documentary on the director by writers N. T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin; an interview with Classe tous risques novelist and screenwriter Jos? Giovanni; interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career; the original French and U.S. trailers; and new essays by director Bertrand Tavernier and Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Claude Sautet's neo-realist Classe Tous Risques (loosely translated as "all-risk insurance") deserves the kind of acclaim accorded classic American noirs, like They Live by Night. As with Nicholas Ray before him, the Frenchman behind the exquisitely restrained chamber pieces Un Coeur en Hiver and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud combines genre tropes with tenderness. It's a tricky balance, and far too many filmmakers succumb to pathos when making the attempt. Milan-based gangster Abel Davos (former wrestler Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows) won't hesitate to plug a foe, but dotes on his two sons, wife Therese (Simone France), and partner Raymond (Stan Krol). When a robbery goes bad, however, several of those nearest and dearest to Davos lose their lives. In swoops ex-boxer Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, just off Breathless) who helps him escape to Paris--by ambulance. Damsel-in-distress Liliane (8 1/2's Sandra Milo) joins the duo on their dangerous journey. Round Midnight's Bertrand Tavernier describes the matter-of-fact ending as "abrupt, unsentimental, and poignant." Written by ex-con Jos? Giovanni (Le Trou) and shot by Ghislain Cloquet (Mouchette), Sautet's first feature, after assisting Georges Franju and Jacques Becker, got lost amidst the French New Wave. It may not surpass Melville for cool, but rivals him in the hood-with-heart department (and Melville greatly admired the film). Supplements include the French and US trailers, interviews with Giovanni and Tavernier from the 2000 documentary Claude Sautet ou la Magie Invisible, and comments from Ventura, circa 1959-1987 about the movie and his career. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Though sentenced to death in France in absentia former gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children after hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo in his first film after Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that's equal parts throat-grabbing and soul-searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope this rugged noir from Claude Sautet (Un coeur en hiver) is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema.System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minutes Language: French Subtitles: EnglishFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: NR UPC: 715515030526 Manufacturer No: CC1758DDVD

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