Rating: 
Summary: REAL FRENCH NOIR
Review: An unusually stylish action-suspense-crime film, the noirish UN FLIC is the last movie from Jean-Pierre Melville, one of the great French directors of the 50s and 60s. Melville has been called the creator of the modern gangster film and a major influence on such directors as Martin Scorsese, John Woo and Quentin Tarantino. This great looking widescreen transfer is especially fine-tuned to the muted shades of night and fog. Richard Crenna is a nightclub owner and the fearless, brilliant head of a gang of bank robbers. When they knock over a small bank, one of them is wounded. Soon burned-out detective Alain Delon, Crenna's old friend, takes an interest in the case and begins piecing the puzzle together. Meanwhile, Crenna, using the stolen loot plans a much bigger heist of a trainload of mob money. And, as fate would have it, both men continue a serious, secretive, relationship with Catherine Deneuve. Get the picture? The almost unbearable tension builds as the vectors of friendship, love and betrayal inexorably converge and meet in a memorable and hard-boiled finale. Released in America as "Dirty Money," this is the director's original cut. "Un flic" translates as "the cop." Recommended.
Rating:
Summary: REAL FRENCH NOIR
Review: An unusually stylish action-suspense-crime film, the noirish UN FLIC is the last movie from Jean-Pierre Melville, one of the great French directors of the 50s and 60s. Melville has been called the creator of the modern gangster film and a major influence on such directors as Martin Scorsese, John Woo and Quentin Tarantino. This great looking widescreen transfer is especially fine-tuned to the muted shades of night and fog. Richard Crenna is a nightclub owner and the fearless, brilliant head of a gang of bank robbers. When they knock over a small bank, one of them is wounded. Soon burned-out detective Alain Delon, Crenna's old friend, takes an interest in the case and begins piecing the puzzle together. Meanwhile, Crenna, using the stolen loot plans a much bigger heist of a trainload of mob money. And, as fate would have it, both men continue a serious, secretive, relationship with Catherine Deneuve. Get the picture? The almost unbearable tension builds as the vectors of friendship, love and betrayal inexorably converge and meet in a memorable and hard-boiled finale. Released in America as "Dirty Money," this is the director's original cut. "Un flic" translates as "the cop." Recommended.
Rating: 
Summary: A great french director
Review: Another great film of Melville. « Un Flic » is the latest film of Jean-Pierre Melville, the famous French director of the 50s and 60s. It's the last but not the least. This film shows particularily well the style of the master which is very sensitive to the nights and gangsters'atmosphere. As it was the case for The Samuraï and for The Red Circle or The Army of Shadows, the story is brilliant and the thrill upon the characters is so high that the viewer feels in. Alain Delon is excellent as usual, Catherine Deneuve and Richard Crenna appears in mysterious roles. You won't regret to buy this VHS because Melville is now considered as a master for directors like John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, or even Martin Scorcese.
Rating:
Summary: A great french director
Review: Another great film of Melville. « Un Flic » is the latest film of Jean-Pierre Melville, the famous French director of the 50s and 60s. It's the last but not the least. This film shows particularily well the style of the master which is very sensitive to the nights and gangsters'atmosphere. As it was the case for The Samuraï and for The Red Circle or The Army of Shadows, the story is brilliant and the thrill upon the characters is so high that the viewer feels in. Alain Delon is excellent as usual, Catherine Deneuve and Richard Crenna appears in mysterious roles. You won't regret to buy this VHS because Melville is now considered as a master for directors like John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, or even Martin Scorcese.
Rating:
Summary: The last but not the least
Review: « Un Flic » is the latest film of Jean-Pierre Melville, the famous French director of the 50s and 60s. It's the last but not the least. This film shows particularily well the style of the master which is very sensitive to the nights and gangsters'atmosphere. As it was the case for The Samuraï and for The Red Circle or The Army of Shadows, the story is brilliant and the thrill upon the characters is so high that the viewer feels in. Alain Delon is excellent as usual, Catherine Deneuve and Richard Crenna appears in mysterious roles. You won't regret to buy this VHS because Melville is now considered as a master for directors like John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, or even Martin Scorcese.
Rating: 
Summary: gee
Review: I read about alain delon, he said about himself, "a pretty boy with beautiful face". I was watching this movie and I have a 20/10 vision and I still couldn't figure out, why he said that, his little face with little piggy eyes. The only thing that is really going for him is his shoes. All his movies, how do I put it softly, [I do not like]. He don't even understand what he is doing in the movie as long as camera is rolling, again Alain Delon said that he feels miserable when camera stops rolling and director screams cut, I think he said that because he is afraid that one day director will say cut and you fired, get this untalanted [guy] out, I'll have a better luck doing serious movie with Robin Williams.
Rating: 
Summary: Yawn
Review: I'm no expert on film, much less French New Wave. I just like to explore a bit. So I picked this up because I heard it was considered to be influential, and because the idea of Richard Crenna being in something like this struck me as amusing. I liked the ocean/siren bit at the beginning quite a lot, but the ultra-slow pace lost me soon after that. It's also a bit difficult to watch the train/helicopter bit at the end with an unjaded eye. It just didn't captivate me.
Rating:
Summary: One of the gratest Melville's film
Review: It's a real chance to see that film in DVD. This new release is very expexted for Melville's fans. « Un Flic » is the latest film of Jean-Pierre Melville, the famous French director of the 50s and 60s. It's the last but not the least. This film shows particularily well the style of the master which is very sensitive to the nights and gangsters'atmosphere. As it was the case for The Samuraï and for The Red Circle or The Army of Shadows, the story is brilliant and the thrill upon the characters is so high that the viewer feels in. Alain Delon is excellent as usual, Catherine Deneuve and Richard Crenna appears in mysterious roles. You won't regret to buy this VHS because Melville is now considered as a master for directors like John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, or even Martin Scorcese.
Rating:
Summary: One of the gratest Melville's film
Review: It's a real chance to see that film in DVD. This new release is very expexted for Melville's fans. « Un Flic » is the latest film of Jean-Pierre Melville, the famous French director of the 50s and 60s. It's the last but not the least. This film shows particularily well the style of the master which is very sensitive to the nights and gangsters'atmosphere. As it was the case for The Samuraï and for The Red Circle or The Army of Shadows, the story is brilliant and the thrill upon the characters is so high that the viewer feels in. Alain Delon is excellent as usual, Catherine Deneuve and Richard Crenna appears in mysterious roles. You won't regret to buy this VHS because Melville is now considered as a master for directors like John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, or even Martin Scorcese.
Rating: 
Summary: Slow, Dark and Brooding - Somewhat Disappointing
Review: OK, I can see how this film is a classic and how important it must have been in 1972 when it was released. It is beautifully filmed (especially the opening seaside scenes surrounding the bank robbery) and shares glimpses of a warm and inviting early-70s Paris, which is great.Richard Crenna as a French criminal is a bit hard for me to swallow. Alain Delon's character is cold and mean and elicits no sympathy or understanding from me. I was but a toddler when this film came out so I came of age with MTV, etc. Perhaps my youth causes my attention to be fleeting... The long, slow, no-dialog scenes in this film are tedious in my opinion. Mildly tough to sit through. I should also deride the silly special effects in this film. Part of the story involved a spectacular train robbery. Most of the exterior scenes of this robbery were done with a toy train set in a crude model landscape. Indeed the toy train is being shadowed by a plastic helicopter with a visible cable holding it in place. Just 4 years later Star Wars was released - surely the state of the art for movie special effects in 1972 would have allowed a more realistic train/helicopter chase sequence.
|
