Le Doulos 4K 1962

The only disadvantage of this great movie, I think, is the overload of verbal information - too many names, you can get lost in them and miss the thread of the narrative. But the truth is, that's one of the tricks of the movie - at certain moments, the chair is simply removed beneath the viewer - he can't figure out what the hell is going on.

“Melville actually questions the credibility of an image whose essence often defies immediate explanation, and in some cases remains inscrutable. The entire film becomes a single, masterfully realized hoax, which translates a quite ordinary gangster plot into a transcendental plane.” Grigory Darakhvelidze

What is also interesting, on this movie and ended friendship with the “new wave”. Melville began to be accused of all mortal sins. To which he replied not without irony: “Back then, everyone was a director: actors, playboys, intellectuals, journalists - everyone! And now the majority have gone back to what they used to do. The new wave is gone, it never existed at all!”, and went on to create his own universe. Like a true rebel, he went against the rebels.