Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Classe tous risques (The Criterion Collection, 6.17.2008) Claude Sautet is best known for subtle interpretations of French bourgeois life in such films as Un coeur en hiver and Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud. Yet the director began his career with genre films. Classe Tous Risques, released in 1960, is considered the best of his early work and it's a fascinating companion to similar crime movies made around the same time by Jean-Pierre Melville. (continued)

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"I thought you'd enjoy what

"I thought you'd enjoy what I consider to be the ultimate proof that Brokeback Mountain is a crossover hit," Toronto Star critic Peter Howell wrote today. "This afternoon, my 16 year-old son Jake and his same-age pal Connell went off to see BBM at the local bijou. They were curious about all the hoopla. Jake saw it as No. 2 on my Top Ten list, right after A History of Violence, and he wanted to check it out. (Although he didn't show a similar interest in the Cronenberg.) These two guys normally won't see anything that doesn't involve an explosion, a laser beam or someone slipping on a banana peel. If BBM can grab their attention, it's definitely exerting some weird pull on the masses."

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 30, 2005 at 02:18 PM

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