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??Le Doulos,?? Film Screening
Tuesday November 29, 2011 07:00 PM EST
Cost: free
From the venue:
(Jean-Pierre Melville; France, 1962) A type of soft hat that is French slang for a police informer, Le Doulos is a direct homage to Hollywood noir by Americanophile and godfather of the French new wave, Jean-Pierre Melville. A hit in France, critics passed over the performance of the then white-hot Jean-Paul Belmondo’s fingerman” to laud singer Serge Reggiani’s gangster. As the French gave film noir its defining name it shouldn’t be surprising that Melville displayed full mastery of the genre