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Spine 218: Le Cercle Rouge
Lost in Criterion
English - December 30, 2016 21:12 - 49 minutes - ★★★ - 42 ratingsTV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) opens with a nonsensical and overwrought (and fabricated) quote from the Buddha. It sets a tone for the entire film. Nothing really makes sense, everyone makes decisions against their barely established character and motivations are at best unclear.
But it does let us reflect on all the other gangster films we've watched that we loved or hated! Good times!