Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommes)

this movie was really good but i have to talk about the old guy during the discussion in the theater afterwords who didn’t understand how foreign language films and subtitles worked and it had to be EXPLAINED to him. he was like “did they remake it for american audiences?…

Lucy

A pretty straightforward heist film that is more about the inevitable tragedy of the hyper-masculine gangster lifestyle than anything else. Great music! Beautiful shots! An extremely unlikable protagonist and a tense final few minutes that made me say “good lord” out loud…

demi adejuyigbe

“I liked you…” Blacklisted expat Director Jules Dassin found himself in France and out of work, leading to this hugely influential and effective caper. When the actor cast as the safecracker dropped out, the budget-conscious Dassin stepped in, thus an American found…

Christopher McQuarrie

I give kudos to any film that can pull off a substantial amount of time without dialogue: WALL-E, There Will Be Blood, 3-Iron, but Rififi takes the cake. A full half-hour with no dialogue and no music, and it is one of the most suspenseful scenes I've ever seen. When…

Lise

After spending 5-years in exile from filmmaking blacklisted in Hollywood for his communist party membership by professional colleagues he previously viewed as friends, legendary American noir filmmaker Jules Dassin found himself on the gritty, cold and grey overcast streets…

Josh Lewis

"The rules."

matt lynch

the jewelry store robbery scene was truly unique and ingenious.

Dkxel

"Five years in the pen marks a man." Bullets don't kill people, long prison sentences do. It's entirely impossible to talk about Rififi without reckoning with its central heist scene. Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais) is a career criminal recently released from his…

ScreeningNotes

64/100 Incredibly grim, and yet...superficially grim, somehow? Dassin's efforts to sidestep the source novel's racism, while admirable, appear to have neutered its tragic element; there's virtually no hint of the inexorability that packs such a wallop in Kubrick's The…

Mike D'Angelo