Two Men in Town
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alain Delon, Cécile Vassort, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux Brand: Kino International DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.66:1 Running Time: 100 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-08-16 Audience Rating: Unrated Model: 4112 Studio: Kino Video Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Two Men in Town
Movie Review: Les Miserables, 70s style
Summary: 4 Stars
Two Men in Town/Deux Hommes dans la Ville is a surprisingly good drama from Jose Giovanni, whose own prison experiences were the basis of Jacques Becker's Le Trou. The same sense of working from first-hand knowledge is omnipresent in this drama about Alain Delon's paroled convict trying to start a new life with the help of prison educator Jean Gabin and almost making a go of it until Michel Bouquet's local flic goes all Inspector Javert on him and does everything in his power to engineer his return to crime. Despite some hairspray style slo-mo montages and some awkward construction in the middle, the film manages to make it's potentially cliched story both involving and convincing, not least because of Giovanni's great sense of place and motion, with his fluid camerawork particularly striking.
Gabin is more engaged by the material than usual at this stage in his career and Delon is surprisingly good, especially in his all too convincing final scene, while a young Gerard Depardieu turns up in a couple of scenes offering three generations of iconic Gallic cinematic losers in one film. The crusading tone of the last third is a tad heavy, but the ending - both ritually stylised and yet realistically performed - makes its point far better than the courtroom speeches.
The letterboxed transfer is more than acceptable but less than outstanding, while the extras consist of brief stills gallery, trailer and trailers for 9 other Delon titles - The Sicilian Clan, Borsalino and Co, Flic Story, Mort d'un Pourri, Trois Hommes a Abbatre, Pour la Peau d'un Flic, Le Battant, Parole de Flic and Ne Reveilles pas un Flic Qui Dort.