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Le deuxième souffle. With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him.
- Gustave 'Gu' Minda
Oct 24, 2007 · The Second Wind: Directed by Alain Corneau. With Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc. Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Alain Corneau
- 2007-10-24
Sep 17, 2021 · Bande annonce du film "Le deuxième souffle" de Jean-Pierre MelvilleRésumé : Après son évasion de la prison de Castres, Gu monte à Paris où il retrouve Manouc...
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The implosive Le deuxième souffle captures the pathos, loneliness, and excitement of a life in the shadows with methodical suspense and harrowing authenticity, and contains one of the most thrilling heist sequences Melville ever shot.
Le Deuxième Souffle est un film français de Jean-Pierre Melville, sorti en 1966, adapté du roman homonyme de José Giovanni. Il a fait à l'époque l'objet d'une réception critique très abondante et plutôt élogieuse 1. Alain Corneau en a réalisé une nouvelle adaptation sortie en 2007 .
- S.N. Prodis
- Jean-Pierre Melville, José Giovanni, d'après son roman éponyme
Le Deuxième Souffle is 23244 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 24419 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than My Father's Guests but less popular than Bharat.
Le Deuxième Souffle is one hell of an interesting transition in style and execution considering Melville's trajectory. On one hand, there's the film-noir influences on his career which resulted in a few of the most important neo-noir contributions in cinema history, directed by Melville himself. Bob le Flambeur (1956) carried this.
