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Release Date: 1970

Cast: Paul Amiot, Jean-Pierre Posier, François Périer, Paul Crauchet, Andre Ekyan, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Pierre Collet, Alain Delon, Bourvil

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Drama Film, World Cinema, Crime Fiction, Caper Story

Le Cercle rouge (French pronunciation: [lə sɛʁkl ʁuʒ], The Red Circle) is a 1970 crime film set in Paris, France. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté and Yves Montand. It is perhaps best known for its final heist sequence which is about half an hour in length. The film's title means "The Red Circle" and refers to the film's epigraph which translates as In fact, the Buddha said no such thing; Melville made it up just as he did with the epigraph in Le Samouraï. Vincent Canby, in a 1993 review of a 99-minute version dubbed into... MORE

Le Cercle rouge (French pronunciation: [lə sɛʁkl ʁuʒ], The Red Circle) is a 1970 crime film set in Paris, France. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté and Yves Montand. It is perhaps best known for its final heist sequence which is about half an hour in length. The film's title means "The Red Circle" and refers to the film's epigraph which translates as In fact, the Buddha said no such thing; Melville made it up just as he did with the epigraph in Le Samouraï. Vincent Canby, in a 1993 review of a 99-minute version dubbed into English, said the film "may baffle anyone coming upon him for the first time"; according to Canby: Peter Bradshaw, in a 2003 review of a 102-minute reissue, called the film a "treat" and noted "Melville blends the Chandleresque world of his own devising with gritty French reality. With its taut silent robbery sequence, his movie gestures backwards to Rififi, and with Montand's specially modified bullets it anticipates Frederick Forsyth's Day of the Jackal and the contemporary techno-thriller." Hong Kong director John Woo wrote an essay for the Criterion DVD of Le Cercle rouge arguing the film's merits. When LESS