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La Piscine [The Swimming Pool] *** (1969, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet) – Classic Movie Review 3346

Director Jacques Deray’s handsome looking 1969 drama stars the formidable quartet of Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet and Jane Birkin, who give mesmerising performances. In the screenplay by Jean-Emmanuel Conil, two men (Delon and Ronet) […]

Feb, 12

L’Eclisse [The Eclipse] ***** (1962, Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal) – Classic Movie Review 2850

Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s electrifying 1962 world cinema classic art movie stars beguiling Monica Vitti as Vittoria, a translator in Rome, who leaves her older lover Riccardo (Francisco Rabal) and starts up a new relationship with confident […]

Aug, 25

The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] **** (1969, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick) – Classic Movie Review 2823

Co-writer/ director Henri Verneuil’s very satisfactory and entertaining plot-driven 1969 gangster action thriller The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] is given a classy lift by a top-drawer French and Italian cast. The film is […]

Aug, 17

Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle] ***** (1970, Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volontè, Bourvil) – Movie Review 2822

Alain Delon stars in his second of three exciting collaborations with writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville and his fourth gangster film in 1970, Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle]. Once again, he is ideally cast as a […]

Aug, 17

Un Flic [Dirty Money] **** (1972, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 2821

Writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylishly stylised 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a tough hoodlum, two truly tough […]

Aug, 16

Le Samouraï [The Samurai] ***** (1967, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 2818

Jean-Pierre Melville’s austere 1967 neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark cinematography in Eastmancolor. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it is […]

Aug, 16

Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] ***** (1960, Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou) – Classic Movie Review 1588

The magnificent 1960 Italian classic Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) is a triumph for director Luchino Visconti’s brand of operatic, heightened poetic realism. Visconti clearly relishes telling the trials, tribulation and tragedy of […]

Aug, 25

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