LE SAMOURAÏ by Jean-Pierre Melville
Film
Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ
From April 21 to 26, 2024, watch a 4k restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, featuring a career-defining performance by Alain Delon, who stars as 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 a 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.