Tag: Yves Montand

‘Le Cercle Rouge’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, caper, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, SVOD 09/28/202009/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

Crime cinema has never been so meticulously and coolly executed as in Le cercle rouge (France, 1970). Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1970 heist classic stars Alain Delon and Gian Maria Volonte as coolly professional thieves, Yves Montand as a soused sharpshooter who regains his self-respect when he joins their team, and Andre Bouvril as the unrelenting cop […]