Sautet's shrugging ambiguity, already piquant, already piercing
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09/05/09
Classe Tous Risques (1960)
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Reviews Counted:18
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Average Rating:8.3/10
Synopsis: Neo-Realism meets Film Noir as two tough guys execute a broad daylight payroll heist on the streets of Milan - but returning to France after holing up in Italy for nearly a decade, one of them... [More]
Starring: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio
Director: Claude Sautet
Reviews for Classe Tous Risques
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04/23/09
It ranks among the best of the French New Wave noir films.
06/26/08
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08/11/07
Doesn't quite rate lost-classic status, but it's done with a great deal of dexterity, intelligence and an appealing end-of-'50s cool.
07/13/06
Romantic codes of honor collide with the unforgiving doom of the gangster thriller with a fascinating ambiguity... in Claude Sautet's lean, tough 1960 crime classic...
05/11/06
French directors like Melville and Chabrol did more with the basically American forms and inspirations, but Sautet (a fairly major talent) had crack nerves and an alert, humane eye.
05/05/06
The rerelease of Classe Tous Risques makes you wonder how many other movies this good got scuttled by the French new wave.
03/24/06
Even though the film isn't considered a rule-breaking classic, its straight face holds up quite nicely, thank you.
03/18/06
...another eminently watchable example of the French noir trend of the period.
02/27/06
To come across Classe Tous Risques is like discovering a bottle of marvelous French wine you didn't remember you had, opening it and finding it every bit as delicious as its reputation promised.
01/06/06
Top CriticA crisp, smart, cynical film about dishonor among thieves.
01/05/06
Top CriticA doozy of a French gangster pic that, in its beautifully refurbished and pithily resubtitled re-release, turns out to be one of the highlights of the 2005 movie year.
11/30/05
[T]he young Belmondo alone is worth the price of admission to Classe Tous Risques ...
11/23/05
A killer.
11/18/05
The late Claude Sautet was one of the best, and perhaps the most underappreciated, of the great French directors who came to prominence in the '50s and '60s.
11/18/05
Touching and merciless at the same time.
11/18/05
Claude Sautet's Classe Tous Risques is the kind of French movie that makes you want to throw on your trench coat, light up a cigarette and shoot somebody.
11/17/05
Top CriticBelmondo is the clincher: He's got so much jaunty charisma, the screen can barely contain him.
11/17/05
The new titles are flavorsome, and the restoration is up to Rialto's previous high standards -- shades of gray with the pale glow of an overcast autumn sky.
11/15/05
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