Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970
Alain Delon is as smooth as hell in this at once bare-bones, but deeply complex, criminals picture. Again, lack of trying to find personal motives leaves us with simply an analysis of action, framed also with care and attention, occassionally striking beauty. Notice the constant, subtle use of blue shadings.
This is really a pciture of loneliness, of men trying to connect together, but doing so in a world that cheats them, they are all condemned. It is impossible not to be a criminal. This involves a certain fetishisation of the tools of the trade, and a few moments of surprise when coolness is broken; taking the gun off its tripod, the smash through the wondow. Suspense-turnaround. A sharp, intricate but not too baffling, picture.
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