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Le Doulos
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville · starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani and Jean Desailly
- 4 from the press
Le Doulos: reviews
Reviews
What the critics say average 6.6 from 4 outlets
- 8.0 The GuardianRob Mackie
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, it's knee-deep in shadows, intrigue and suspicion and characters with perfectly tilted hats but shifty morals (Le Doulos means both a hat and an informer and the Coens' hat fetish in Miller's Crossing may well have started here.
Read - 7.5 Time Out
Terrific performances, and equally terrific camerawork from Nicolas Hayer - more gris than noir - conjure a rivetingly treacherous, twilit world.
Read - 7.0 Roger EbertRoger Ebert
To see both Belmondo and Piccoli in 1962 is to be reminded how early they embodied their distinctive screen presences: Piccoli, the balding, saturnine slickster with the five-o?clock shadow, and Belmondo, the oily outlaw punk.
Read - 4.0 Fotogramas
A thriller that tries to articulate a history of feelings found and hopeless on the eternal and ambiguous subject of the betrayal.
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Questions about the reviews of Le Doulos
- What score does Le Doulos have?
- The critics, 6.6 on average from 4 reviews.
- What do the critics say about Le Doulos?
- The highest score is The Guardian’s (8.0) and the lowest Fotogramas’s (4.0).