ICE-Vision: Le Doulos

ICE-Vision: Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962)
Thursday, February 3 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE’s informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.

“Jean-Pierre Melville’s existentialized gangster films are one of the glories of the French cinema, American forms played out with European self-consciousness. This 1962 effort stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as an informer on the lam, but plot pales before Melville’s detailed noir imagery of dingy hotel rooms, back alleys, and subterranean passages. Melville’s love for American films (he was a man of taste as well as talent) was one of the most profound influences on the New Wave generation. In French with subtitles. 108 min.” -Dave Kehr (Chicago Reader)