Classe Tous Risques
Classe Tous Risques
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French filmmaker Claude Sautet (Un Coeur en Hiver) began his career with a string of gangster films not unlike Rififi, and Classe Tous Risques (The Big Risk) is probably the finest example. Lino Ventur a stars as a career criminal who has started a family in Milan while in hidin g from the French police. He decides to return to Paris for one last job, but when the heist goes south, he must enlist a young crook (Jean-Paul Belmondo , Breathless) to help him navigate the now-unfamiliar Parisian underwo rld. "The French New Wave descended more or less directly from mainstream Frenc h crime films made in the 1950s, and if there is a missing link in that evolution, it might be this one" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). With cinematography by Ghislain Cloquet and music by Georges Delerue. In Frenc h Claude Sautet---France---1960---103 min.s

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   | Rubes#1

This is a gangster noir movie and is a one-of-its-kind. Lino Ventura (Abel) is "a doomed man" as someone says in the special features. From first to last (and the end was rather surprising in its abruptness) he is not going to come through this and we know it. So the story is the last part of his life. Belmondo (Eric Stark) enters early on and has a specific function--to get Abel from Italy to France with his wife and 2 young kids. The relationship between the two men is central. I've never seen such a matter-of-fact tenderness, if that is the right word. Respect, humility, odd words for a gangster noir, and this emotional range is half of what gives this film its power. A.O. Scott's headline for his review is "Two Thieves Bound By Honor Ricochet Through the Underworld." Wonderful surprise.

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   | Hedges#1

This film offers an early noirish look at Jean Paul Belmondo, who, in the American release, was promoted as though he were the film's main star over Lino Ventura. There is considerable location shooting here (Paris looks great) and much violence. If early 60's French New Wave/noir is something you dig, you'll want to take a look, though it might not leave you BREATHLESS.

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   | Joe#7

Much to my surprise this movie with the usually excellent Belmondo and Venturi was boring. Shows that stars cannot always rise above bad material.

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