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| Un Flic [1971] | ![Un Flic [1971]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51esLdfAybL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Jean-pierre Melville
Actors: Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £17.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13869
Format: Anamorphic, Pal
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 96 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060034579717
ASIN: B000N3T2IA
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
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 How Low can you go, Weak all round July 18, 2008
What a pity. Whatever anyone thinks of Melville good or bad, i cannot believe any right minded person could believe for one moment that this film could have been acceptable then or now. The plots and heists could have been invented by a 9 year old with the help of Gerry Anderson from thunderbirds fame. The drawn out train heist with the model train and helecopter with wires were too obvious for words while actor Richard Crenna makes a meal of it he always looked very uncomfortable in this part. There was very little dialogue few words spoken throughout, but on a positive note if it were not for the suave good looking and cool Alain Delon and the Fabulous Catherine Deneuve it would have been a super major flop, But for me I would buy anything that these two stars are in. The background song is brilliant but i do not know which french lady is singing, but its perfect. Make your own mind up anyway.br /br /Forget who produced and directed it, see and for what it was and is, worth watching and keeping it for your collection only for Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve. ps look out for the obligitory French slap round the face and the sqauking seagulls.........Go for It.
 Melville Distilled October 27, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Melville seems to be having a joke with this, his last film. The laughably inept model train helicopter work the obvious studio "street" in one brief shot seem deliberate, as if Melvile is seeing what he can get away with. There is more humour in the scene where Crenna co, dressed as medical staff look like bizarre ghost-gangsters accompanying Deneuve as an angel of death-like nurse...very mock Cocteau. br /br /The obligatory protracted heists we have seen before. In "Le Cercle Rouge", Melville gave us an alcoholic redeemed...in "Un Flic", there is no such hope. Cops, criminals victims are one the same...figures of sadness against a cold, blue backdrop and accompanied by Michel Colombier's stirring, yet resolutely downbeat theme "Thalassa" (from his album "Wings", a record that Melville admired).br /br /This film is no "Cercle Rouge", it is a bizarre dreamlike drift through traces of Melville, there is no romantic death to close this film, rather Melville ends the film (and his career) with banal melancholy, fittingly, the "futility of effort" that lies at the core of much of his later work has the last word.
Not Melville's Best But Still Worth a Look October 9, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Un Flic was Melville's last film and most crtics think his worst. That may be true but Melville's worst is better than most other directors best. The films opening sequence is also it's best, as four gangsters sit in an American car on a rainy French seafrount waiting to rob a bank. The robbery and the getaway are a masterpeace of economy with a minimum of dialogue but lots of atmosphere.br /br /American actors Richard Crenna and Michael Conrad (Phil from Hill Street Blues) play two of criminals and Alain Delon plays the cop out to get them.br /br /As with all of Melville's films the plot is secondary to the atmosphere and the way men, particulary criminals, relate to each other.br /br /In a later robbery the bad guys rob a diamond smuggler on a moving train.br /The special efects during this robbery are poor by today's standard and even by the standards of the time. Yet do not let this put you off. The action and figures may be stylised, all Melville's gangsters wear overcoats or raincoats, hats, drive American cars and drink wiskey, but the overall efect overides any faults. Melville was also always clear that his films were not intended to be a realistic portrait of the French underworld. br /br /If you like your crime films blood soaked with massive gunfights and explosions then forget this film or any of Melville's others. If you want something a bit more inteligent give it a couple of hours.
Le Flic is Interesting October 5, 2007
This film is interesting for lots of reasons. It is clear that Melville was suffering budget problems but there is much of merit here. Take the opening. A bank robbery goes wrong and one of the gang is shot and is dying. The film is about what follows. br /br /Tarrantino used this for the opening of Reservoir Dogs, a wonderful case of Melville who adored Hollywood being repaid by Hollywood. Even the cars are American with the clothing reflecting this transatlantic theme. Melville was a brave man in the war, he knew that life is in shades of grey and this shows in his characterisation and for me this film is typical Melville with the (predictable) but inevitable ending which unfolds like a Greek tragedy. Just really good cinema.
Melville's swan film July 18, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Sad to say the Jean-Pierre Melville did not leave this planet on a high note. Still, UN FLIC possesses some virtues beyond Melville's picturesque style. I found the two drawn-out heists, one right at the start and one in the middle, fascinating. And Catherine Deneuve, in a small supporting role, was the loveliest I've ever seen her.br /br /This film also had the curious appearance of two American actors, Richard Crenna and Michael Conrad (better known later for his role in HILL STREET BLUES) - dubbed (I presume) into French. Crenna brings weight to his role but he must have felt a little lost doing it. br /br /However, the rest of the movie languishes in world-weariness - but why? Melville must have seen that tone in a lot of movies at the time and sought to emulate them. But the rest of the story is too barren to explain it. And both Alain Delon, as the cop of the title, and Catherine Deneuve were too young and too lucky to be weary of life. It didn't seem authentic.br /br /Still, there are so few Melville films that this is worth a viewing by Melville fans, at least.
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