Film
Bob le Flambeur
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 98 mins
Gamblin’ Bob (Roger Duchesne) is a bit of a loser, so he decides to revert to his previous career as a robber, masterminding an audacious raid on the casino at Deauville. Jean-Pierre Melville‘s first original script – and also his first foray into the world of noir – is an absurdist comedy that’s an obvious precursor to the French New Wave, being packed with style, pretentious dialogue and the obligatory jazz score. There’s also a fabulously brooding performance form Duchesne as the “aging young man”.
It’s a suitable choice to launch the ‘shed’s September Jean-Pierre Melville – An Independent Spirit Sunday brunch season, following on from the re-release of Le Doulos.
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