Didn’t really get (or anyway stay) on its wavelength. As a doc-hater, strongly preferred the studio-shot sections to the pseudo-doc sections. Crista Alfaiate was a delight—that laugh!—and a shot in the arm when she shows up halfway through, and I appreciated that the film got you on her side before showing that she thinks little of exploiting and endangering Asians whom she sees as means to her end. But she’s not totally unsympathetic in that last section of the film,…
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Le Cercle Rouge 1970
Melville seems to have favored similar kinds of seedy exterior street locations in this, Le Samourai, and Army of Shadows.
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The Big Clock 1948
Cracking story, full of dramatic irony. Stroud makes a suitably ingenious hero. Dialogue doesn’t sing, but when the scenario is this good I don’t mind.
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