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wejetset films: Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï (1967)

Written by Joanne Lam: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï is a masterful crime drama that thoroughly captures the spirit of “less is more”. With its insistence on monochromatic tones, rigid lines and hushed dialogue, Le Samouraï’s minimalist viewing experience perfectly accentuates the tension prevalent in the life of a professional hitman named Jeff Costello. Acted to perfection by Alain Delon, this stone cold character meddles in the grey area between law and crime in order to accomplish his tasks, and in doing so, eventually works himself into trouble. As Le Samouraï unfolds, the plot becomes a game of Russian roulette where Costello’s every move is potentially lethal – for him, the outcome can be either black or white, but never grey. Click Read More for additional information and photos.