Director: Gilles Grangier
Country: France
Country: France
Jean Gabin and Lino Ventura were like Al Pacino and Robert De Niro for the European cinema during the 50's and 60's, and before Tony Soprano and Walter White, they were the guys who called the shots or paraphrasing Walter White "they were the danger" playing the roles of anti-heroes, and charismatic cold-blood murderers dressing suits, coats and hats.
Old-school cinema can teach many lessons to young filmmakers and to young viewers and even critics of this time, but the main one is that it's not necessary to produce expensive special effects to make a decent film nor is it necessary to hire a genius cinematographer nor a blondie-curvy woman to write an engaging story and make it entertaining, and this heist film is the perfect example of it, not only because it breaks some noir clichés like that of the femme fatale, but also because it contains violence, suspicion, betrayal and action and even some funny moments (like that when the crew steals a car with a truck which has a cow on it).
I would not label this little unknown film as a "masterpiece" but it is without a doubt a solid piece in the genre which influenced the American upcoming movies of the 70's, I also found some coincidences such as Marcel Bozzuffi who appears in this film and years later in William Friedkin The French Connection.
E=mc2 is Einstein's most famous formula and maybe his permanent trademark in the world, well I'm inventing a new one: Paris + Thieves = Film Noir
Old-school cinema can teach many lessons to young filmmakers and to young viewers and even critics of this time, but the main one is that it's not necessary to produce expensive special effects to make a decent film nor is it necessary to hire a genius cinematographer nor a blondie-curvy woman to write an engaging story and make it entertaining, and this heist film is the perfect example of it, not only because it breaks some noir clichés like that of the femme fatale, but also because it contains violence, suspicion, betrayal and action and even some funny moments (like that when the crew steals a car with a truck which has a cow on it).
I would not label this little unknown film as a "masterpiece" but it is without a doubt a solid piece in the genre which influenced the American upcoming movies of the 70's, I also found some coincidences such as Marcel Bozzuffi who appears in this film and years later in William Friedkin The French Connection.
E=mc2 is Einstein's most famous formula and maybe his permanent trademark in the world, well I'm inventing a new one: Paris + Thieves = Film Noir
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