Bob le flambeur is a 1956 french gangster film directed by jeanpierre melville. Rent bob le flambeur 1956 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Bob le flambeur aka bob the gambler 1956 french film noir from director. Bob le flambeur was shot on location in paris and deauville with two interiors at rue jenner studio. Jeanpierre melville, auguste le breton cinematography.
Its this lowlife milieu and the characters that inhabit it, rather. Luckily, we have bob le flambeur bob the gambler, one of the greatest caper movies in any language. Watch bob le flambeur 1956 online free and download bob le flambeur free online. Here, an aging gambler navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen, and naive associates while plotting one last heist. Exbank robber and gambler, bob, plans a heist at the deauville casino. Bob le flambeur the current the criterion collection. Suffused with wry humor, jeanpierre melvilles bob le flambeur melds the toughness of american gangster films with. Bob le flambeur bob the gambler jeanpierre melville. The narrator is also a star of this flick as he constantly drolls bob le flambeur in a rich, matteroffact, french accent.
Released 1955, bob, le flambeur stars roger duchesne, isabelle corey, daniel cauchy, howard vernon the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 43 min, and received a score of 80 out of 100 on. Coscripted by the popular crime writer auguste le breton, this is the story of exbank robber and compulsive gambler bob roger duchesne, who plans a heist at the deauville. Suffused with wry humor, bob le flambeur melds the toughness of american gangster films with gallic sophistication to lay the road map for the french new wave. Melville became the master of the criminal underworld gangster pictures, with bob le flambeur. Like rififi, another heist film based on the work of auguste le breton, bob le flambeur is hard to watch without hearing echoes of the many films it influenced, from oceans 11 either version to hard eight and beyond. You can watch bob le flambeur online on videoondemand services netflix, hbo now, paytv or movie theatres with original audio in french. In paris, bob montagne is practically synonymous with gambling and winning. But bob director jeanpierre melville was himself influenced, in a different sense, by an american film.
Hes generous, moralistic, drives a twotoned convertible coupe, lives in a swank apartment, and has the respect of the police. Bob le flambeur hd movie 1956 free online film guide. To me this is the film that started it all for melville. Bob le flambeur pic is in the rififi classification and is even written by the same man. Bob le flambeur bob the gambler is a smashing gangster masterpiece. Comical podcast a comedy show all about comic books. Yugoslavia serbian title literal title potpaljivac bob.
Rent bob le flambeur 1956 starring isabelle corey and daniel cauchy on. As the neon is extinguished for another dawn, an aging gambler navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen, and naive associates while plotting one last scorethe heist of the deauville casino. Then he got caught for bank robbery and went to prison for a while. Criterions dvd of bob le flambeur looks stunning, as if we were seeing a 1955 answer print in paris.
Hoberman suffused with wry humor, jeanpierre melvilles bob le flambeur melds the toughness of american gangster films with gallic sophistication, influencing the coming french new wave. Bob le flambeur also known as bob the gambler is a movie written and directed by jeanpierre melville in 1955. Inspired in part by john hustons the asphalt jungle, the film captures the atmosphere of late night paris. He is kind, classy and wellliked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector ledru.
Melville, an avid admirer and collector of americana and american crime movies, took much from the gangsters and brooding tough guys in hollywood pictures. Get 50% off hundreds of family movies when you preorder on fandangonow today. Roger duchesne, daniel cauchy, isabelle corey, guy decomble. The complexities that exist between the characters is just wonderful. However, when bobs luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes. This is not only one of the best gangster films ever made, but one of the best films period. Bob le flambeur special edition aka bob the gambler blu. Bob, the titular gambler, and the police chief of the postwar parisian red light district of montmartre, have a history. Suffused with wry humor, jeanpierre melvilles bob le flambeur melds the toughness of american gangster films with gallic sophistication to lay the road map. In pariss montmartre district, everyone knows bob, a welldressed compulsive gambler.
Allegedly, bob had once pushed the chief out of the way of a bullet, ultimately saving his life during a heist bust bob would then go to jail for. Jeanpierre melville s love of the american gangster film found full expression in bob le flambeur, his uniquely french take on the genre. Fever heat, jeanpierre melvilles bob the gambler, bob the gambler fever heat, bob the gambler. Bob le flambeur aka bob the gambler 1956 only old movies. Cast bob le flambeur 1956 isabelle corey filmography.
The soundtrack is also very clean for an independent film, suggesting that the dialogue was post recorded. Melville claims to have written a serious version of bob as early as 1950. Jeanpierre melvilles bob le flambeur 1955 has a good claim to be the first film of the french new wave. This annotation previously appeared in senses of cinema issue 25, marapr 2003 and issue 39, may 2006. Bob, le flambeur 1955 stream and watch online moviefone. The other aspect where i think bob le flambeur has the edge is in the character of the bar owner yvonne. Bob le flambeur urgent text directed by jeanpierre melville 1955 through the night streets of montmartre saunters silverhaired roger duchesnes bob montaigne, exgangster and flambeur high roller, or compulsive gambler, moving from poker to craps to the track to roulette to baccarat and back, on the way to his last and greatest heist. Search, discover and share your favorite bob le flambeur gifs. Le flambeur 3 boulevard abdelmoumen, casablanca, morocco rated 4. Nonfrancophones might not understand its crackling and untranslatable slang dialogue by auguste le breton, who also wrote the incomparable rififi, but they will feel its.
It concerns the last job of an aging gangster who has been devoting himself to gambling until the final. The french have made some firstclass crime pictures, which americans have been given too few opportunities to see. This light, breezy 1955 heist film is probably the least. It involves cracking the safe at the casino in deauville after bob, an aging gangster and mostly unlucky gambler, hears that the safe can contain as much as 800 million francs after a busy night. Suffused with wry humor, jeanpierre melvilles bob le flambeur melds the toughness of american gangster films with gallic sophistication to lay the road map for the french new wave. Bob le flambeur 1955 the caper is almost an afterthought in jeanpierre melvilles venerated bob le flambeur 1956, although its quite a caper. Bob le flambeur bob the gambler, although a more idiomatic translation would be bob the high roller is a 1955 film from france, directed by jeanpierre melville 20 years ago, bob was a wellknown gangster in the paris underworld. Jeanpierre melvilles bob le flambeur appears on a now discontinued criterion dvd that presents the film in its original aspect ratio of about 1. Both a tribute to classic american gangster films and a source of inspiration for french new wave filmmakers, bob le flambeur is the first in a series of stylish noirs that jeanpierre melville made in the mid50s. After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino. Daniel cauchy, who stars in it as paolo, bobs callow young friend, remembered that melville would shoot scenes on location using a handheld camera on a delivery bike, which godard did in breathless, but this was years before godard. Jeanpierre melville inspired by john hustons the asphalt jungle, melvilles classic film is less a true noir than in the directors words a comedy of manners a romantic meditation on montmartre, faithless women, old pros and casinos waiting to be knocked over. She gets a lot of time in bob le flambeur, in the background of the scenes set in her bar and then the wonderful scene with the policeman near the end. A few cuts rock at the splice point, and that is literally it.
Monsieur bob is a legend and admired by all who know him, including the local bobbies. With roger duchesne, isabelle corey, daniel cauchy, guy decomble. After losing big, an aging and tired gambler eager to leave the game roger duchesne navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen, and naive associates. Watch bob le flambeur 1956 full movie streaming youtube. Bob le flambeur special edition aka bob the gambler bluray. Shot on location in 1954 in gambling dens that were soon demolished for housing developments bob le flambeur is, among other things, a variation on john hustons asphalt jungle. Monsieur bob is calm, collected, suave, sophisticated and a man with a past. Bob le flambeur click to enlarge rated pg 1 hr 40 min 1955 classic, crime drama, drama, suspensethriller. Scenes d art 1956 bob le flambeur real jean pierre melville duration. The film is not your usual heist film, that label somehow cheapens it, it is far more than a heist film. This movie has been premiered in australian hd theatres in 1956 movies 1956. Bob le flambeur was released in paris on 24 april 1956. Join facebook to connect with bob le flambeur and others you may know. Suffused with wry humor, bob le flambeau melds the toughness of american gangster films with gallic sophistication to lay the roadmap for the french new wave.
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