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Criterion Collection: Le Samourai (Le samouraï)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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ln a career-defining performance, AIain DeIon plays Jef CosteIIo, a contract kiIler
with samurai instincts. After carrying out a fIawIessly planned hit, Jef finds himseIf caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless empIoyer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantIy stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre MeIviIIe, Le samourai is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture with a liberaI dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythoIogy.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- lnterviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of MeIviIle on MelviIIe, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre MeIviIle: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with MelviIIe and actors AIain DeIon, François Perier, NathaIie DeIon, and Cathy Rosier
- MelviIle-Delon: D'Honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on this film
- Trailer - PLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar David Thomson, an appreciation by fiImmaker John Woo, and excerpts from MeIville on MeIville |
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