"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled
American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale
of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended
dialogue free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film
noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this
lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's
role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and
argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the
thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated
relations between French genre cinema and American mass
culture.
Phillips also examines the film's innovative narrative
construction and use of sound, its performance style and
mise-en-scene, and discusses the film's legacy, showing how even
today, the term "Rififi" remains a byword for both criminal glamor
and the enduring virtues of French popular classical
filmmaking.
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