DVD Charts
DVD Genres
Le Doulos DVD
Le Doulos
RRP: £19.99 You Save: £11.10
DVD £8.89 Free Delivery
ipoints Value Total: 89
Release Date: 26 April 2004
Availability: In stock What does this mean...
More Details
| Certificate: |
|
|---|
| Cast List: |
|---|
| Director: |
|---|
| Special Features: |
|
|---|
| Region: |
|
|---|
| Aspect Ratio: |
|
|---|
| Number of Disks: |
|
|---|
| Main Language: |
|
|---|
| Subtitle Languages: |
|
|---|
Description
Based on a novel from the famous 'serie noire' crime series, Le Doulos inaugurates the great run of gangster films that were to make Melville the master of the genre.
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as the duplicitous Silien, underworld criminal and police informer, and Serge Reggiani as the dogged villain Faugel, Melville creates a twilit world of ambiguity and betrayal, in which 'all characters are two-faced, all characters are false'.
This was also the film he called 'my first real policier', and already the characteristic elements of the French 'noir' are in place: the bleak, downbeat atmosphere, laconic dialogue, perennial themes of male friendship, loyalty and betrayal and always a sense of impending tragedy.
Le Doulos pays tribute to the American gangster films of the 1940's whilst retaining a uniquely French perspective. Where the Hollywood 'noir' strives for clarity and simplification, Melville's films and Le Doulos in particular, retain their ambiguity, leading to a major 'coup de theatre' at the film's finale.
Special Features
- Audio commentary over selected scenes and filmed introduction by French cinema e
Alain Delon Box Set - Screen I...
RRP: £34.99
One of the most magnetic and prominent French actors of the post-war era, Alain Delon's first outstanding success was in ... More
DVD £16.89 Free Delivery
RRP: £19.99
In Melville's self-confessed 'love letter to Paris', the world-weary hero weaves his way through a stylised Parisian underworld, a failed ... More
DVD £6.49 Free Delivery
RRP: £19.99
A personal project for over twenty-five years, Jean-Pierre Melville's adaptation of Joseph Kessel's seminal wartime novel has been praised as ... More
DVD £12.49 Free Delivery
RRP: £19.99
Le Silence de la mer - Jean-Pierre Melville's debut film - is an adaptation of the novella of the same ... More
DVD £14.89 Free Delivery
