Country: France
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Running time: 105 minutes
Year of release: 1967
Language: French with English subtitles
Screening date: Saturday, June 1, 2024
Time: 7:00pm – 8:45pm
Location: The Screening Room @VTIFF, 60 Lake Street, 1st Floor, Burlington, VT
Admission: $10 general admission; $5 student; member benefits do not apply
in Jean-Pierre’s 1967 masterpiece. Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. Elegantly stylized. Le Samouraï is a cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture, with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
Le Samouraï will be shown in its resplendent new 4K restoration, so, like most films in the Screening Room, it will look and sound great.
For information and tickets, visit VTIFF.