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Saturday, Aug 12, 2017
6:30 PM (98 mins)
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SUBJECTS
Un flic
(A Dirty Cop), (Dirty Money)
featuring
Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna, Riccardo Cucciolla,
Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna star in Melville’s last feature, a consummate cops-and-robbers tale of remarkable set pieces and an even more remarkable sense of nihilism. A windswept seaside bank robbery, a hospital breakout, a giddily ludicrous train heist: Melville’s nearly wordless action scenes are miracles of staging, timing, and movement, and prove that suspense can build from not more action, but less. Similarly, the dialogue is as colorless as the autumnal surroundings, yet Un flic still generates an inescapable mood of moral decay, constant surveillance, and brooding despair. Sartre by way of Simenon, it’s a fitting swan song to the director’s career.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Jean-Pierre Melville
Cinematographer
- Walter Wottitz
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 98 mins
Source
- Rialto Pictures
CINEFILES
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Jean-Pierre Melville: the French connection (program note), Pacific Film Archive, Judy Bloch, 1996
Dirty money (review), Films and Filming, Gordon Gow, 1974
Dirty money (review), Sight and Sound, David Overbey, 1974
Flic, un (review), Monthly Film Bulletin, Tony Rayns, 1974
Un flic (review), Variety, Gene Moskowitz, 1972
Jean-Pierre Melville in context (program note), Chris Peachment
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