Melville explains how he sees the role of the director in an interview accompanying this high-definition digital restoration: вЂњA film-maker is a shadow puppeteer.

Melville was one of the most diligent film-viewers ever, and he is deliberately alluding here to earlier American role models, such as Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire (1942), or possibly Bogart in Casablanca. He is seldom seen without trenchcoat and fedora. Throughout the film Delon is being hunted down, and the viewer is magnetised by the clues his facial expression gives or doesnвЂ™t give.

In Italy the film was titled Faccia dвЂ™AngeloВ (Face of an Angel) and it is indeed DelonвЂ™s seraphic face which dominates and almost never leaves the screen. The putting on of the hat in front of a mirror, or the donning of white gloves are done withВ great care and thoroughness, as if they are a вЂњhieratic ritualвЂќ in the words of Volker SchlГ¶ndorffВ who worked with Melville as an assistant. We watch as Delon does other kinds of meticulous preparation for his crimes. As Melville explains in one of the interviews accompanying this Criterion release вЂ“ with extras such as documentaries, interviews and a 2005 essay by David Thompson вЂ“ for him, gangster movies are a vehicle to explore themes that really interest him: individual freedom and trust, friendship and betrayal (just about always between men, it was the Sixties.).ДЄnd then there is the inescapable fact that the main protagonist of Le SamouraГЇ is the impossibly handsome Alain Delon in his early thirties, in the first of three films he made with Melville. People familiar with the Paris Metro will notice Costello vaulting off the tapis roulant (travolator) at ChГўtelet, and see the police doggedly tracking their suspect using a customised version of the PILI ( Plan Indicateur Lumineux d'ItinГ©raires), once such an everyday sight in stations all over Paris.Д«ut the plot and the setting are really just a pretext. The police investigation inevitably involves lines of questioning involving the temperature of bed-sheets. In the dialogue-less opening he steals a grey CitroГ«n DS (there is a lot of grey). And then finds he is also being pursued by his criminal bosses. Meanwhile, Apollo looked cute in a brown hoodie with white hearts, also from her Next range, and matching trousers as the trio strolled through the UK capital.In spite of that, he is rounded up on the same night, identity-paraded the following morning, and once he is released by the police, he still remains their main suspect.

She wore a pair of blue denim jeans and had on a pair of chunky black and white boots to match the shirt she wore beneath her coat. Hero was just as well dressed as her mother, opting for a beige trench coat while she wore a black and white polkadot top underneath. The former Hear'Say star, who is also mother to daughter Ava, 14, who was not in attendance, completed her look with a pair of grey high-heeled boots while she hid behind a dark pair of sunglasses. The singer could be seen wearing a plush cream trench coat over a multi-coloured patterned dress from her Next range as she walked hand-in-hand with her offspring. Other than her musical talents, she's known for her impeccable fashion sense.ДЄnd Myleene Klass, 43, showcased her excellent sense of style as she headed toВ the South Bank Centre in London with her daughter Hero, 10, and sonВ Apollo, two, on Sunday. Don McLean calls Taylor Swift a 'major rock and roll force of nature' В© Provided by Daily Mail

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