Classic Cinema Club: LE SAMOURAI at the Michigan Theater

This is in the main auditorium. No assigned seating. Movie starts at 7:30pm.

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.

Film | Crime/Drama | PG | 1h 32m | 1972, France
Part of our Noir International film series

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