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Rififi (1955) - French heist film

  • 21-03-2015 1:53am
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    MakeEmLaugh
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    I finally got round to seeing Jules Dassin's Rififi, a film I'd read about for years but hadn't tracked down (it's currently available to watch on Irish Netflix).

    The most famous passage of the film is the lengthy robbery of a jewelers, conducted without any dialogue between the participants. What struck me in watching the film is the central character – a precursor to the modern masculine characters with see in the likes of Michael Mann's thrillers, such as Thief and Heat.

    He's extremely precise, planning every detail to avoid being caught, and the robbery itself is a success, unlike in many films where a trigger-happy gunman proves to be a liability.

    An interesting fact about Rififi is that it's a French film directed by an American. Dassin was blacklisted in the 1950s and fled to Europe. He even appears in the film as one of the gang. As such, Rififi has an American sensibility not dissimilar to the likes of Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle.


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