Un Flic A Cop
Beginning with a remarkable bank robbery on a deserted beach front and also featuring a helicopter heist shot in real time, UN FLIC is perhaps Jean-Pierre Melville's most perfect synthesis of style and suspense. A wonderfully fatalistic study of loss and deception, and a distillation of Melville's interest in the codes of loyalty and honor, the film marks a fitting epitaph to one of the finest careers in contemporary cinema.
"A fitting final act for noir master Jean-Pierre Melville..." - Simon Abrams, Village Voice
"...a pleasure to experience." - Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times
Running Time
96 mins
Year
1972
Kanopy ID
6522704
Filmmakers
Features
Alain Delon, André Pousse, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Desailly, Michael Conrad, Paul Crauchet, Riccardo Cucciolla, Richard Crenna, Simone Valère, Valerie Wilson
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Comments (9)
An interesting curio considering the film came out around the same time Serpico, French Connection, Dirty Harry, and the like were changing crime films to be more gritty and realistic. Melville, an early champion of location filming, in this film had to rely on moribund techniques like fake ...Read more
An interesting curio considering the film came out around the same time Serpico, French Connection, Dirty Harry, and the like were changing crime films to be more gritty and realistic. Melville, an early champion of location filming, in this film had to rely on moribund techniques like fake sets, rear-projection, and the fakiest of fake models for the film's big heist. It's a decent movie with his usual obsession with minutia, but unfortunately considering the era of filmmaking, it's a woefully anachronistic swan song.
Read lessgood review- that about nailed it.
I kinda thought it a had a Thomas Crown Affair / Bullitt flavor to it. But the train helicopter scene was cheesy.
Pour moi, ceci et Le Cercle Rouge pourraient être les deux meilleurs films de tournage de l'histoire. Belle ambiance qui porte l'histoire et sans violence excessive, explosions ou dialogue vulgaire.
Great suspense movie.
Wonderful.
Superb
Good solid noir.
Excellent last Melville, the French king of film noir.