Bob Le Flambeur Details

I'll let you get back to your steamroller.

Bob le Flambeur was made on a shoestring budget with a tremendous cast of minor actors including newcomer Isabel Corey, a beauty built up by reviewers as an alternative Brigitte Bardot who faded into obscurity. The limited budget may explain the large amounts of location shooting, filmed between dusk and dawn, which shows a beautiful, picture postcard Paris with its patina buildings and atmospheric nightlife featuring bars you'd love to drink in. It's a brisk, roughly made film with erratic editing but this highlights the picture's overall exuberance and authenticity. Magical stuff.

Un Flic is a darker more melancholy and minimal film and Melville's last. Stylish and finely crafted with two meticulously planned capers. These films prove Melville was one of cinema's finest directors of the crime genre

[Highly rated reviewer]

Bob de Flambeur

From a confirmed Francophile and anti hollywood tosh, I have to say, although film was old, I resented a French film being made to copy american morally bankrupt 'culture' where, society is vandalized by overt sex scenes and gratuitous violence. It was not as depraved as american stuff; but copying the style and subject matter was silly, because the French are naturally more well adjusted and civilized than the outrageous americans; France should only make films about it's own superior culture, which is way more profound, than anything coming out of usa!