LE CERCLE ROUGE
FRANCE/ITALY 1970
DIRECTOR: JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
For his penultimate work in the genre, Melville brings together three archetypal tough guys for their appointment with destiny in the “red circle”: prisoner-in-transit Gian Maria Volonté, crashing out of the train that’s taking him from Marseilles to Paris; ex-cop Yves Montand, moving from hopeless DT-plagued drunk to dapper, rock-steady sharpshooter; and quintessential Melville anti-hero Alain Delon, on his first day out of the joint shrugging off two murder attempts and planning his next big job. All three join forces for a meticulously orchestrated heist of a Place Vendôme bijouterie, a silent tour-de-force in the grand movie tradition of RIFIFI, TOPKAPI, and THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. (140 mins.)
LE CERCLE ROUGE
8:30 PM -
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