Summary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAMSummary: A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2004