Deux hommes dans la ville (1973)

Director:

José Giovanni

Writers:

José Giovanni (original scenario)
José Giovanni (dialogue) ...

Release Date:

agosto 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past. |

Plot Keywords:

Policeman | Accident | Social Worker | Tragedy | City

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Les Miserables, 70s style

Cast

Jean Gabin	...	Germain Cazeneuve
Alain Delon	...	Gino Strabliggi
Mimsy Farmer	...	Lucie
Victor Lanoux	...	Marcel
Cécile Vassort	...	Évelyne
Ilaria Occhini	...	Sophie
Guido Alberti	...	Le patron de l'imprimerie
Malka Ribowska	...	L'avocate (as Malka Ribovska)
Christine Fabréga	...	Geneviève
Gérard Depardieu	...	Un jeune truand
Robert Castel	...	André Vaultier, le voisin de palier
Albert Augier	...	Rasuin
Maurice Barrier	...	Le juge d'instruction
Paul Beauvais
Gabriel Briand	...	Jeannot

También conocida como:

Due contro la città (Italy)
Two Against the Law
Two Men in Town (USA)
Dos hombres en la ciudad (Spain) [es]

Duración:

90 min | France:100 min | USA:100 min | West Germany:96 min

País:

France | Italy

Idioma:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Lac du Salagou, Hérault, France

Company:

Adel Productions

Movie Connections:

Features Brigade antigangs (1966)

Les Miserables, 70s style

Two Men in Town/Deux Hommes dans la Ville is a surprisingly good drama from Jose Giovanni, whose own prison experiences were the basis of Jacques Becker's Le Trou. The same sense of working from first-hand knowledge is omnipresent in this drama about Alain Delon's paroled convict trying to start a new life with the help of prison educator Jean Gabin and almost making a go of it until Michel Bouquet's local flic goes all Inspector Javert on him and does everything in his power to engineer his return to crime. Despite some hairspray style slo-mo montages and some awkward construction in the middle, the film manages to make it's potentially clichéd story both involving and convincing, not least because of Giovanni's great sense of place and motion, with his fluid camera-work particularly striking.

Gabin is more engaged by the material than usual at this stage in his career and Delon is surprisingly good, especially in his all too convincing final scene, while a young Gerard Depardieu turns up in a couple of scenes offering three generations of iconic Gallic cinematic losers in one film. The crusading tone of the last third is a tad heavy, but the ending - both ritually stylised and yet realistically performed - makes its point far better than the courtroom speeches.