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...Gallic Courtesy. The spree began in December 1969, when the working-class young men, all between the ages of 19 and 27, gathered in a local bar to drink and grumble about their poor-paying jobs. "What'll we do tonight?" one of them asked. "Let's rob a bank," another answered...
With a curious combination of Gallic courtesy, reckless abandon and careful planning, the impromptu bandits -generally operating in two-man teams -thereupon hit seven Marseille banks in 57 days. They never wore masks or gloves. They never fired a gun or struck anyone. When an elderly lady fainted during a holdup, one gang member, Antoine Nitti, gave her a glass of water and embraced her before fleeing...
Throughout the film there is the discomforting contrast between savagery and soft pastel colors, much as if Renoir had painted an execution. Chabrol's talent is very nearly matched by that of his wife Stephane, who gives touching depth to the role of the existential Gallic heroine...
...noble and ignoble that in English (and in a rather stodgy translation, too) sometimes make Papillon sound a little like The Rover Boys on Land and Sea. Perhaps more important, the kind of sympathy for Papillon that helped the book so much in France is based on a peculiarly Gallic preoccupation with justice miscarried. For years, France has treated men charged with crimes as guilty until proved innocent, and generally looked upon prison as a place that prisoners should either not survive or, failing that, be taught never to risk entering again. Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean -sentenced...
Borsalino is a silly Gallic gangster flick that means no harm. It's good enough fun, in a kind of punch-drunk way, what with all its elaborate costumes, its opulent sets, its duke-outs, shootups and gang wars. But in their campy zeal to duplicate the hard-boiled crime genre of the '30s and '40s, the film makers lapse frequently into a kind of hysterical, hell-for-leather hyperbole that gives the movie an air of burlesque gone overboard...