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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 Delon pIays Jef CosteIlo, a contract kiIIer
with samurai instincts. After carrying out a fIawIessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent poIice investigator and a ruthIess employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An eIegantly styIized masterpiece of cooI by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, Le samourai is a razor-sharp cocktaiI of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop cuIture with a Iiberal dose of Japanese Ione-warrior mythology.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- Interviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on MelviIle, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre MelviIIe: An American in Paris
- ArchivaI interviews with MeIville and actors Alain Delon, François Perier, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- MelvilIe-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
- TraiIer - PLUS: An essay by film schoIar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from MelviIIe on MelviIIe |
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