With this Le Cercle Rouge Poster, discover a landmark crime film that has left its mark on French cinema. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, it tells the story of a gangster fresh out of prison who plans a daring robbery with three other accomplices, including a corrupt former police officer. Together, they will attempt to steal a priceless jewel from a Paris jewelry store.
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Description of this Le Cercle Rouge Poster
Le Cercle rouge is a 1970 crime film set primarily in Paris. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, François Périer, and Yves Montand. It is known for its climactic heist sequence, which lasts about half an hour and features virtually no dialogue.
The film’s title means “The Red Circle” and refers to the film’s epigraph, which translates as:
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with red chalk and said, “When men, even unknowingly, must one day meet, whatever happens to each, whatever paths diverge, on that day they will inevitably reunite in the red circle.”
In Marseille, a prisoner named Corey is released early for good behavior. Shortly before his departure, a prison guard alerts him to a prestigious jewelry store he could rob in Paris. Corey goes to the home of Rico, a former associate who dumped him and with whom his former girlfriend now lives, and forcibly takes money and a handgun from Rico’s safe. He then goes to a pool hall, where two of Rico’s men find him. After killing one, knocking out the other, and taking his gun, Corey buys a large American car and, hiding the two handguns in the trunk, sets off for Paris. On the way, listening to jazz and news on the radio, he runs into a police roadblock. That same morning, another prisoner, Vogel, who was due to take the train from Marseille to Paris for interrogation by the highly respected Commissioner Mattei, manages to escape into the countryside. Vogel is pursued and eludes Mattei, who orders the setting up of roadblocks and supervises the manhunt. Meanwhile, Corey, who has understood the stakes of this gigantic police activity, stops at a roadside grill in the epicenter of the manhunt, leaving his car trunk unlocked. Vogel crosses a creek to throw the dogs off his trail, reaches the grill, and hides in the trunk of Corey’s car.
Corey, who saw him and was just waiting for this, drives into a field and tells Vogel he can come out because he’s safe. After a tense confrontation during which Vogel brandishes one of Corey’s guns, he realizes that Corey has just been released from prison that morning and is trying to save him. The two men drive away with Vogel in the trunk. Shortly after, a car with two of Rico’s men catches up with Corey and forces him off the road. They take him into the woods, take his money, and are about to kill him when Vogel, emerging from the safe with the weapons, shoots them both dead.
Corey takes Vogel to his empty apartment in Paris, where they begin planning the aforementioned robbery. For this, they need a sniper to disable the security system with a single shot and a fence to buy the merchandise. Meanwhile, Mattei tries to locate the killer of Rico’s men and recapture Vogel. To do this, he puts pressure on Santi, a nightclub owner who knows much of the criminal underworld but refuses to talk.
Corey recruits Jansen, an alcoholic former police officer and sniper, as well as a fence. Over the course of a long night, Corey, with Vogel and Jansen’s support, successfully robs the jewelry store. However, the fence refuses to take the goods, after being warned by a vengeful Rico, who had been inadvertently told by the prison warden all along that Corey was on the case.
Overcoming their disappointment, Jansen and Vogel suggest that Corey ask Santi to recommend a new fence. Mattei blackmails Santi for information about the meeting scheduled for that evening at his nightclub, where Corey is supposed to meet the fence. Mattei, posing as the fence, asks Corey to take the goods to a country house.
Corey complies, taking Jansen as backup and leaving Vogel at his apartment, where he has received the red rose Corey had received from the florist at Santi’s house. When Corey arrives at the country house and begins showing Mattei the jewels, Vogel appears out of nowhere, probably because he suspects Corey is unsafe with this new fence, and asks Corey to flee with the loot. After a brief and tense confrontation with Mattei, Vogel follows Corey. Jansen, alerted by the gunfire in the manor grounds, now filled with police officers, arrives to arrest the pursuers. One after the other, the three men are shot dead by Mattei’s agents, who recover the jewels.