Le Samourai

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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture, with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology, Melville's masterpiece Le Samouraï defines cool.

It is a film that has influenced generations of directors from the French New Wave to Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs). Shot in steely blues and greys with minimalist dialogue and a meticulous attention to atmospheric detail, Melville's stylistic thriller sets a chilling timebomb pace.

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New digital transfer; Interviews with Rui Nogueira, author of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris; Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Francois Parier, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier; New English subtitles; 29-page booklet featuring film scholar David Thomson, filmmaker John Woo, and selections from Melville on Melville.

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