Grisbi (re-release)

Name: Grisbi (re-release)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir
Released: September 5, 2003
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 85

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United Motion Pictures Organization (UMPO) | Release Date: September 5, 2003

Summary: The granddaddy of the modern Gallic gangster movie, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (translation: "Don't touch the loot!") immediately created a market for offspring like Dassin's "Rififi" and Melville's "Bob Le Flambeur." Adapted from the seminal 1952 "Série Noire" novel by Albert Simonin, Grisbi took the gangster saga to new heights of realism byThe granddaddy of the modern Gallic gangster movie, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (translation: "Don't touch the loot!") immediately created a market for offspring like Dassin's "Rififi" and Melville's "Bob Le Flambeur." Adapted from the seminal 1952 "Série Noire" novel by Albert Simonin, Grisbi took the gangster saga to new heights of realism by portraying the criminal class as a larcenous subbourgeoisie and introducing authentic underworld slang to screen dialogue. (Film Forum)… Expand

Director: Jacques Becker

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir

Runtime: 94 min

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Roger Ebert

Max is played by Jean Gabin, named "the actor of the century" in a French poll, in Jacques Becker's Touchez Pas au Grisbi, a 1954 French crime film that uncannily points the way toward Jean-Pierre Melville's great "Bob Le Flambeur" the following year. Read full review

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Edward Guthmann

The magic here is all in the telling: in the graceful, laconic direction of Jacques Becker. Read full review

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Kenneth Turan

A wonderful treasure from the seemingly inexhaustible cornucopia of crackling French crime dramas. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jean Gabin wasn't yet 50 when he starred as a big-time, high-style gangster hoping to retire, but he still looks pretty wasted, and this pungent tale about aging and friendship, adapted from a best-selling noir thriller by Albert Simonin, would be hard to imagine without his puffy features. Read full review

Jon Strickland

Grisbi is hard (new subtitles bring out the chill of the gangsters' argot) and gray: a meditation on what we are left with when life has let us down, played out in the haunted eyes of Jean Gabin. Read full review

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Jeanne Moreau turns in a neat bit as a moll and Dary as the inarticulate aging Romeo friend is memorable. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Often confusing, especially during the first half, but Gabin and Ventura are well cast as hoods. Read full review

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