SUN. MAR 31 AT 7:30 PM
Sun Mar 31, 2024
Le Samouraï
Closing Night! West Coast Premiere of new 4K Digital Restoration
- RUNTIME
- 1h 45m
- RATING
- NR
- DIRECTOR
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- CAST
- Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier
SYNOPSIS
Originally released October 25, 1967
In French with English subtitles.
NOIR CITY climaxes with the West Coast premiere of a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic LE SAMOURAÏ, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existential coolness and dread. Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a sleek and self-possessed assassin whose latest contract leaves him in a struggle for survival. Melville’s aesthetically calculated exercise in cinematic style is not only a tribute to the vintage crime and gangster movies he loved; it became a touchstone for subsequent generations of filmmakers. Gorgeously photographed by Henri Decaë in the most monochromatic color scheme ever, the film’s visual style and hypnotic rhythms achieves a state of Noir Nirvana.
FORMAT: DCP
In French with English subtitles.
NOIR CITY climaxes with the West Coast premiere of a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic LE SAMOURAÏ, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existential coolness and dread. Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a sleek and self-possessed assassin whose latest contract leaves him in a struggle for survival. Melville’s aesthetically calculated exercise in cinematic style is not only a tribute to the vintage crime and gangster movies he loved; it became a touchstone for subsequent generations of filmmakers. Gorgeously photographed by Henri Decaë in the most monochromatic color scheme ever, the film’s visual style and hypnotic rhythms achieves a state of Noir Nirvana.
FORMAT: DCP
