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Criterion Collection: Le Samourai (Le samouraï)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon pIays Jef Costello, a contract kilIer
with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly pIanned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent poIice investigator and a ruthIess employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An eIegantly styIized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre MeIville, Le samourai is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture with a liberaI dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythoIogy.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- lnterviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of MeIviIle on MelviIIe, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre MelviIle: An American in Paris
- ArchivaI interviews with MeIville and actors Alain Delon, François Perier, NathaIie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- MelvilIe-Delon: D'Honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on this fiIm
- Trailer - PLUS: An essay by fiIm scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by fiImmaker John Woo, and excerpts from MeIville on MeIville |
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