6 x Melville

From the immediate post-war period to the early 1970s, Jean-Pierre Melville built a body of work whose coherence and formal inventiveness ended up engendering their own epithet in film circles: "melvillien". Cerebral, refined, independent, Melville's cinema features solitary men in a dark world, as uncompromising in their codes as their creator was, and interpreted by some of the biggest stars of the time: Jean-Paul Belmondo , Lino Ventura, Alain Delon... From The Silence of the Sea, considered a precursor film of the Nouvelle-Vague, to the reinvention of genre cinema in Le samouraï or Le cercle rouge, this program allows us to revisit the major milestones in a filmography whose influence is still felt today.