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Le Deuxieme Souffle

Le deuxième souffle

1966

Jean-Pierre Melville

Lino Ventura, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga, Jean-Claude Bercq ...

7.5

1,344

Thriller. Drama Gustave Manda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before leaving the country with Manouche, Gu needs a final job to get some money. But that's not so simple when you have Inspector Blot tracking you, and have to deal with the consequences of the shooting in Paris...

	Media	Author	Review
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It isn't an easy film to watch (...) but this somber, repressive, and perverse work displays a ferocious moral and formal integrity"
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Melville’s chilled underworld romanticism, one of the most influential styles in the modern cinema, reached a height of personal expression in this crime drama"
		Nick Schager Slant	"The film’s environment is so meticulously, thoroughly realized that it’s breathtakingly immersive (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Time Out	"The steely location photography gives the action a veneer of realism, but the film's real energies are subterranean, and suffused with Melville's typical poetry"
		Variety	"A solid gangster opus influenced by some earlier American types but successfully transferred to the local milieu"

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