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  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    The 1973 film with Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale - about an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle - is a complex masterpiece of clinical and steady suspense crescendo, one of the very few films my father ever recommended to me, along with the 1954 French thriller The Wages Of Fear, and I’ll be damned if the old man wasn’t spot on, with impeccable taste.

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I agree with your Daddy. Those are both fantastic films. I’d also throw The French Connection in there.

      • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        If that’s the general flavor we’re looking for, I’d also vote to add Jean Pierre Melville’s 1967 film Le Samouraï with Alain Delon.