Nov 26 2010
Streaming Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection Online
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Essentially a comedy of manners with menace, “Bob the Gambler” or “BOB LE FLAMBEUR” is a sizable caper film that also heralded the coming French Original Wave. The electric, slang-filled French dialogue written by Auguste le Briton (”Rififi”) has a rhythm and snap that is nicely mirrored in the icy, slick, sometimes harmful unfolding of the memoir itself. Unfortunately, the dialogue suffers a small in the not quite place on English subtitles.
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville resplendent distinguished invented the French crime film. After World War II Melville (proper last name Grumbach), made films on a shoestring, on residence and without stars. He was alone among all French filmmakers who made pictures entirely on his terms. This 1955 film, with a budget about ten times bigger than a typical French film of its time, is also a loving portrait of Paris and an homage to the noirish American films of the 40s and early 50s. Especially John Huston’s “Asphalt Jungle.”
Roger Duchesne is Bob, a courtly gangster with a shipshape style not unlike the unhurried mobster kingpin Gotti, who plans on robbing the Deauville casino. But the film is not so worthy about the details of Bob’s one last heist as it is about playing with the genre itself. Bob is a dismal knight with a code of loyalty that conflicts with the amorality of his profession fair as the filmmaker Melville toys with the makings of a recent film tradition. A terrific film that beats the ancient and unusual versions of “Ocean’s Eleven.”
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This novel digital transfer, like all Criterion discs, is favorable. Extras include an interview with Daniel Cauchy (”Paulo”) and a radio interview with director Melville, who was so enamored of American culture that he took the last name of Moby Dick’s author.
I first saw this movie at a local film festival a year ago and fell in savor with it. The characters are enthralling, ones you want to revisit again and again. And what a terrific caper! Isabelle Corey, one of the astronomical but unrecognized beauties of the ’50s, is proper.
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It’s tall to now bear this film on DVD. Lots of worthy extra features, including an audio interview with the director (from 1960) and a note fresh filmed interview with one of the stars.
If you bask in film noir and “gangster” films, this French classic is a must.
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