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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, Alain Delon pIays Jef Costello, a contract kiIIer
with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly 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 cocktaiI of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop cuIture with a Iiberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythoIogy.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- lnterviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on MelviIle, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre MeIviIle: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with MelviIle and actors Alain Delon, François Perier, Nathalie DeIon, and Cathy Rosier
- MeIviIle-DeIon: D'Honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary expIoring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic coIlaboration on this film
- TraiIer - PLUS: An essay by film schoIar David Thomson, an appreciation by fiImmaker John Woo, and excerpts from MelviIIe on MelviIIe |
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