If you like "roman noir", and you are able able to read French, search for Auguste le Breton's "du rififi chez les femmes". I suppose I have the first edition, 1967. You'll see that technology changed a number of things in Europe, but that the crime scenes are about the same, even when the dolls are mixed up in it up to their throats. The book makes for compelling reading, now and again. Unfortunately, the film is rather more sedate, but still watchable if you get in Antares/Travelling video in their collection "les immortels du 7ème art".
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Rather faithful to the Auguste le Breton's novel.
searchanddestroy-116 August 2020
I read the novel several decades ago and was very moved by it, as any other book written by Le Breton, so poignant, gripping stories, where this author knew how to tell stories and tensions between characters. The atmosphere and overall story is similar to the book, except that in the novel, it is not question of a heist, and the last sequences are not in the film. This is the perfect example that you can change sequences in a film from a novel and still remain faithful to the book spirit. On the contrary, you can make a film, book handed, scene for scene, and change the whole soul, only with a few dialogues. The example, Claude Chabrol's NADA. It seems the best adaptation in the world from Jean Patrick Manchette's book, and it is not. See my comment for this latest feature; I explain every detail.
Disappointing!
RodrigAndrisan2 May 2023
I expected to see a very cool movie, with such a title and such a cast. I was expecting a spectacular production, with an alert action, something that would leave me breathless. Despite the presence of many good and very good actors, such as Nadja Tiller and Robert Hossein, the film is nothing but a big bore, not to mention that everything we see is more than predictable, not a bit of surprise, unforeseen or suspense. Robert Hossein here is very young and unconvincing. Very young and in 2 very tiny roles, Michel Galabru and Claude Pieplu. I never liked Roger Hanin, in any movie. Nadja Tiller and Silvia Monfort are the best, but they can't save the film, which is hard to digest.
The successful rififi that no one enjoyed
figueroafernando14 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The prickly human soul, which barely approaches what makes it shine, hurts those around it in its bliss, perfectly crystallizes in the haughty Vicky Berlin, paragon of hidden pride in the simulation of the varietés of "Raison and Co" in which displays the most sophisticated insolence of singing about "l'argent" money, while meandering among the sleepless tables, there is no room in her mental representations of anything that is not the same theme of her melody, money!, placing herself in the I quarreled in the making that forges with Marcel and other henchmen of the Marquis in Paris... but there are complications for Vicky: first the operation, the rancor of her past full of abuse at 15, the lover Jürgen, oh and how can I forget the wuss of the corrupt inspector behind the Capo Bug, the same Bug who wants to snatch the cabaret from Vicky at a low cost while he is preparing to get information from Madame van Steen of the Bank of Belgium where the rififí is taking place. The Pirate, Capo de capos, must intervene so that Bug grants a truce to Vicky and Marcel oero during the bank robbery, the riffraff, Bug betrays everyone and they eliminate Berta and the obedient Jean. Bug arrives with his hit man Luigi and others just when the robbery had already been carried out and Marcel was about to escape with Vicky. The feelings surface in the end in her who realizes what she felt for Marcel but when she descends the long rope with the sack of money. Everyone eliminated everyone, this should be written in the epitaph of each one.
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