Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1970): Cine Lumiere, 2pm
Chicago Reader review:
'Jean-Pierre Melville's austere heist film, made in 1970, was his next to
last; it opens with a Buddhist aphorism about fate binding two men to
meet again, and ends with a police chief pronouncing all men ultimately
guilty. Two prisoners return to society—Corey (Alain Delon) has served
his sentence and is released, while Vogel (Gian Maria Volonte) escapes
from a speeding train. They team up with a sharpshooting ex-cop to mount
an exquisite jewel theft. Melville renders the taciturn crooks and
corrupt inspectors with the nocturnal blue palette that is his
signature. Key action points are edited with finesse, but the
denouement, with its dutiful hail of gunfire, is heartless and
mechanical. '
Bill Stamets
Here is a flavour of the movie.
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