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Bob le flambeur
Bob le flambeur ("Bob the Gambler" or "Bob the High Roller") is a 1956 French gangster film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film stars Roger Duchesne as Bob. It is often considered a film noir and precursor to the French New Wave because of its use of handheld camera and a single jump cut.
Plot.
Bob, a former bank robber and convict who has gone straight for 20 years, lives on his own as a gambler in the Montmartre district
Majorly stylish, "Bob le Flambeur" is a cool homage to American gangster films and the presage to French New Wave mode of seeing."
Roger Ebert added the film to his Great Movies list in 2003.
Remake.
"Bob le flambeur" influenced the two versions of the American film "Ocean's Eleven" (1960 and 2001) as well as Paul Thomas Anderson's "Hard Eight", and was remade by Neil Jordan as "The Good Thief" in 2002.
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