Le doulos
L’acteur Jean-Paul Belmondo, récemment disparu, a marqué le monde de la cinéphilie. Nous présentons l’étonnant Le voleur de Louis Malle (scénario de Jean-Claude Carrière), où le génial acteur partage la vedette avec la québécoise Geneviève Bujold. Vous pourrez également retrouver l’acteur dans Le doulos de Jean-Pierre Melville.
Le Doulos begins by introducing us to Maurice, an ex-con, just released from prison after serving a six-year sentence. He then murders his friend, Gilbert, and steals the jewels he had been hiding, products of a recent heist. Shortly afterwards, Maurice plans a heist of a rich man’s estate and shares his plan with Silien, who is rumored to be a police informant. Silien is later picked up and questioned by the police. The film unfolds from there, incorporating a number of plot twists revealed through Melville’s traditionally styled hard-boiled dialogue and picturesque visuals.
Jean-Pierre Melville
Born Jean-Pierre Grumbach in a family of merchants in Paris in 1917, Melville fell into cinema from his earliest childhood: he was only six years old when his parents gave him a Pathé-Baby camera. During the 1930s, he developed a bulimic cinephilia, became passionate about American cinema and affirmed his vocation. The Second World War, which he spent in the Resistance, was a decisive experience. When he joined Free France in London in 1942 he took the name of one of his bedside writers, Herman Melville, as his pseudonym. When the war was over, he self-produced on a shoestring his first films, Twenty-four hours in the life of a clown and The silence of the sea. Very attached to his independence as a creator, Melville founded the Jenner studios in 1955, which produced most of his work. He enjoyed his greatest public success with his penultimate film, Le Cercle Rouge.
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