With "Touchez pas au grisbi" Becker made a French film noir that inspired Jean Pierre Melville to make "Bob le Flambeur" two years later.
Normally film noirs are about trickery and deceit, but "Touchez pas au grisbi" is more about loyalty and (male) friendship.
In three different scenes we see main character Max (an experienced criminal played by Jean Gabin)
meet businesspartners in a nightclub; having a meeting with his gang in a local restaurant; spending en evening with his old partner in crime in his hiding appartment.
The young members of his gang are getting really excited by the female beauty in the nightclub. Max is most at ease with his pal in the appartment.
It is interesting to compare "Touchez pas au grisbi" with "Casque d'or", a film Becker made two years earlier. In "Touchez pas au grisbi" the crimes are more violent, but the criminal world is somehow more "friendly".
Normally film noirs are about trickery and deceit, but "Touchez pas au grisbi" is more about loyalty and (male) friendship.
In three different scenes we see main character Max (an experienced criminal played by Jean Gabin)
meet businesspartners in a nightclub; having a meeting with his gang in a local restaurant; spending en evening with his old partner in crime in his hiding appartment.
The young members of his gang are getting really excited by the female beauty in the nightclub. Max is most at ease with his pal in the appartment.
It is interesting to compare "Touchez pas au grisbi" with "Casque d'or", a film Becker made two years earlier. In "Touchez pas au grisbi" the crimes are more violent, but the criminal world is somehow more "friendly".