Jean-Pierre Melville’s LE SAMOURAI (1967)

RETRO: THE CRITERION COLLECTION
June 26-28, 2026 | $12 per person | $50 for a 5-Pass

Jean-Pierre Melville’s LE SAMOURAI
(1967, 105 min, France)
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean Pierre Melville, Le Samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
In French with English subtitles
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