*Warning: There will be spoilers in this review* Title translation: "Second Wind" Written by José Giovanni and Jean-Pierre Melville, and directed by Melville, "Le Deuxième Souffle" is a crime thriller adapted from a novel also written by Giovanni. Ultimately, Le Deuxième Souffle is more about the appreciating the exercise and visual experiment that Alain Corneau and cohorts have put together. "Le deuxieme souffle" is not the most well known picture from the oeuvre of Melville, but it is a connecting link between the pure film noir of "Bob le flambeur" (1956) and the more abstract (but still film noir) films such as "Le samourai" (1967) and "Le cercle rouge" (1970). / Street Date October 7, 2008 / 39.95 Starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paul Frankeur Cinematography Marcel …

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Director Jean-Pierre Melville's obsession with American crime thrillers is in abundant evidence in Le Deuxieme Souffle, an excellent film despite being a bit too long. Taken as a series of bravura showcases for the director’s unparalleled modulation of tone, rhythm, texture and mood, however, Le Deuxième Souffle smolders, its portentous fatalism generated from hyper-composed camerawork and an experimental jazz score that help couch the proceedings in a nowhere-world situated between dream and reality.

E arly in Le Deuxième Souffle, police investigator Blot (Paul Meurisse) preemptively details the various phony-baloney stories some criminals involved in a shootout plan to tell, though the crooks’ threadbare tall tales still prove successful at keeping them out of the slammer. "Le deuxieme souffle" is not noticeable because of an innovative plot. Of the three films I've seen from Melville at this point, this is …

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Le deuxieme souffle (English Subtitled) at Amazon.com. Melville 's obsession is not, fortunately, concerned with merely copying its American counterparts, but in using them as a model against which he can play variations of his own, until what emerges has a life and vibrancy that is unique to itself. Le deuxième souffle Criterion 448 1966 / B&W / 1:66 anamorphic widescreen / 144 min.