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Rated: Unrated; DVD Release Date: Oct 07, 2008; Genres: Crime, Drama; With: Lino Ventura
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By Chris Nashawaty
Chris Nashawaty
Chris Nashawaty
Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column

The French have always gone gaga for American film noir, none more so than Jean-Pierre Melville. In classics like 1967’s Le Samouraï, the director put hard-boiled dialogue into the mouths of chain-smoking Parisian tough guys, adding a soupçon of Left Bank existential dread to the mix. Now, this pair of lesser-known Melville gems Le Doulos and Le Deuxième Souffle — both centering on doomed heists — gets the full Criterion treatment: lush black-and-white transfers and a slew of EXTRAS including film-nerd pensées and archival interviews with the late master. Gitanes sold separately. A-


Posted Oct 14, 2008
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