Le Samouraï at the Carolina

One of the earlier films combining a modern crime anti-hero with the samurai ethos - a classic French noir starring Alain Delon. Influencing and followed by such notable pictures like "Ghost Dog" and "Ronin".

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.

Le Samouraï - Carolina Theatre of Durham
https://carolinatheatre.org/events/film/le-samourai/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229

Let's gather 20 min before the screening (14:50) in front of Cinema One.
This screening happens to be at almost the same time at the Carolina (although fortunately in a different theater 😀) as Mark's event "My Dinner With Andre" so we could join with them afterwards and debate which film was more worth seeing 😀.