Great Jean Pierre Melville's special achievement , giving a memorable work , Un Flic 1992 was to relocate the American Gangster Film in France and to incorporate his own philosophical obsessions and steely poetic sentiment . Dealing with two set-pieces heists , both of them are ingeniously planned and meticulously filmed as ever . Meanwhile , a psychotic French cop chasing his alter ego , a night- club owner : Richard Crenna and chasing him across a darkening urban lanscape, but he happens to be his best friend. Then things go wrong , resulting in fateful consequences .It results to be a bitter meditation on defeat , deceiving and disenchantment . Melville described this , his penultime movie as a digest of the gloomy definitive underworld set-ups that could be found in John Huston's classic of doomed gangsters, "The Asphalt Jungle" . Darker , more abstract and desolate than his early works , this shows , set piece by set piece, the breakdown of the criminal codes under which Melville's roles have formerly operated . It worth seeing , specially the film's central sequence , a superbly executed train robbery. Delon is excellent as the expressionistless , silent , violent cop , similar to role played in Le Samourai 1967 playing a cold killer . Delon has striven in vain to repeat this success in several subsequent films at the same genre , likewise other known actors like Lino Ventura, Jean Paul Belmondo and usually directed by Henry Vernuil , Jose Giovanni or Jacques Deray. The main and support cast are really magnificent with full of familiar faces , the French Alain Delon , Catherine Deneuve as the glacial girlfriend , Simone Valere , Paul Crauchet , Jean Desailly , one Italian : Ricard Cucciolla and two American actors : Richard Crenna, Michael Conrad.
This motion picture following the American thriller conventions was well directed by Jean Piere Melville, it is stylistically his most pared-down , being his thirteenth and last film, as well as one of the best Melville's thrillers . Melville started as a post-war forerunner of the prestigious "Nouvelle Vague" , but he left this style in various different ways as a purveyor of a certain kind of Film Noir and eventually creating his own company and a tiny studio. His pictures and peculiar talent are very copied and much-admired by contemporary filmmakers who pay ordinary tributes in their films . From his first work : "Le Silence de la Mar" , Melville depeloped progressive and increasing more and more perfect directing skills , including notorious pictures , such as : "Les Enfants Terribles" , "Bob Le Flambeur" or "Bob the Gambler" , "Deux Hommes dans Manhattan" , "León Morin Priest" , "The Finger Man" , "Second Breath" , "The Samuraii" , "The Army in the Shadows" , "The Red Circle" and "Un Flic" or "Dirty Money" . Rating : 7/10 . Better than average . The flick will appeal to Alain Delon , Catherine Deneuve fans and Polar or French Film Noir enthusiasts.
This motion picture following the American thriller conventions was well directed by Jean Piere Melville, it is stylistically his most pared-down , being his thirteenth and last film, as well as one of the best Melville's thrillers . Melville started as a post-war forerunner of the prestigious "Nouvelle Vague" , but he left this style in various different ways as a purveyor of a certain kind of Film Noir and eventually creating his own company and a tiny studio. His pictures and peculiar talent are very copied and much-admired by contemporary filmmakers who pay ordinary tributes in their films . From his first work : "Le Silence de la Mar" , Melville depeloped progressive and increasing more and more perfect directing skills , including notorious pictures , such as : "Les Enfants Terribles" , "Bob Le Flambeur" or "Bob the Gambler" , "Deux Hommes dans Manhattan" , "León Morin Priest" , "The Finger Man" , "Second Breath" , "The Samuraii" , "The Army in the Shadows" , "The Red Circle" and "Un Flic" or "Dirty Money" . Rating : 7/10 . Better than average . The flick will appeal to Alain Delon , Catherine Deneuve fans and Polar or French Film Noir enthusiasts.