Le Deuxieme Souffle (Le deuxième souffle) (1966)

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“De los mejores Melville´s, la nobleza solo está en el propio código de Gu/Ventura; no puede morir o fugar, dos cosas que parecen lo mismo, sin que se sepa que no traicionado a Pellegrin. Meurisse los entiende y entiende que lo puede apresar o matar. Grandes personajes que nos dan licencia de acompañarnos la extremo y luego desecharlos.” read more

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"Jean-Pierre Melville’s exacting cinematic worlds typically operate according to the hard rules of fate and are populated by men driven by an obsessive professionalism that’s informed by unbreakable codes of honor and conduct. In Le Deuxième Souffle, one of the director’s most ascetic works, it’s ex-con Gu (Lino Ventura) who finds himself in the crosshairs of both Melville’s unsentimental vision and that of the ruthlessly cunning and equally seasoned Inspector Blot (Paul Meurisse), who"