Hitman Jef Costello (Delon) lives in a single-room Parisian apartment whose spartan furnishings include a little bird in a cage. A long opening shot shows him lying on his bed, smoking, when the following text appears on-screen:
Costello's methodical modus operandi includes airtight alibis involving his lover, Jane (Nathalie Delon). Having carried out a contract on a nightclub owner, he is seen leaving the scene by several witnesses, including piano player Valérie (Cathy Rosier). Their statements are inconsistent but the investigating officer (François Périer) believes Costello is his man based on the witnesses of Costello and his alibi that points to him being with Jane the whole time.
Costello loses a police tail and gets to a meeting point on a subway overpass where instead of getting paid, he is shot and wounded by a man sent by his employers. Having bandaged his wound and rested, he returns to the nightclub and goes for a car drive with the piano player. He is grateful yet estranged to why she defended him when he knows she is the key witness to the murder. In the meantime, police officers bug his room, which agitates the bird in its cage. Upon returning, Costello notices some loose feathers scattered around the cage and the bird acting more eccentric. Suspecting an intrusion, he searches his room, finds the bug and deactivates it.
[Verse 1:] She said her name was Lisa Marie And she was a beast Woman so bad it's illegal to speak She say she like me and she was eager to meet And I was just as eager as eager as she Body so sick u can eat off her feet Go to the hospital die in a week She say she was a model well obviously Cause I can sure picture her between my sheets Baby was a flower w/ rose pedal cheeks And everytime she talk its like a gold medal speech Intelligent she should teach. And if so I will be a nerd like screech [Bridge:] I told her I would write a rhyme about her And it would be sweet I said I need the perfect track she said that's deep I worked on it all night didn't get no sleep Now here is my song and this is the beat [Chorus:] This is the beat this is this is the beat And here is my song about Lisa Marie She she she said her name was Lisa Marie Li-Lisa Marie [x8] [Verse 2:] She said her name was Lisa Marie and she was discreet Her picture's in the dictionary next to elite I told her we can get away we can retreat Cut off my arms put um on her seat Cut off my legs put um on her head So I could run thru her mind like she does mine And everytime she smile it make me feel like a child In the supermarket on the candy isle I saw a picture of her w/ her panties down I fall asleep and dream I'm a camera now I would love to be the water in her shower Or one of her bath towels [Bridge:] I told her I would write a rhyme about her and it would be sweet I said I need the perfect track she said that's deep I worked on it all night didn't get no sleep Now here is my song and this is the beat [Chorus:] This is the beat this is this is the beat And here is my song about Lisa Marie She she she said her name was lisa marie Li-Lisa Marie [x8] [Verse 3:] She said her name was Lisa Marie and she was a piece A piece of fine art like a piece of the leak She was unique ex-quisite Like x y z she was complete And I think she like butterflies Because she got one on her upper thigh And her face is like summer time Birthday the same month as mine w/ a different sign Virgo I go wherever her go If she say so I'm on her like a fur coat In November she colder than December She got me fallin' like TIMBER! [Bridge:] I told her I would write a rhyme about her and it would be sweet I said I need the perfect track she said that's deep I worked on it all night didn't get no sleep Now here is my song and this is the beat [Chorus:] This is the beat this is this is the beat And here is my song about Lisa Marie She she she said her name was Lisa Marie
However, what is genuine about ‘Le Samourai,’ the passion that Melville felt for this quintessentially American genre, is strong enough to make this one of the glories of the modern gangster film, ...
Critics who want to be fancy about it tell their readers about Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" from 1967, in which a French new wave lover of American culture (note the last name he gave himself) invented all manner of influential tropes ... ....
Here is our roundup. “The Killer”. David Fincher’s violent, deadpan take on the hitman genre tips its snazzy fedora to “Le Samourai” and other assassin classics, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s all familiar ground ... He’s kept his cool … until now.
CHRIS HEWITT. Star Tribune... In its obsession with surfaces and design, as well as its hero's demonstration of an odd moral code, it reminded me of classic French thrillers by Jean-Pierre Melville, who made "Le Samourai" and "Army of Shadows." ... So far.
The plan? Kill before he’s killed ... In its obsession with surfaces and design, as well as its hero’s demonstration of an odd moral code, it reminded me of classic French thrillers by Jean-Pierre Melville, who made “Le Samourai” and “Army of Shadows.”.
CHRIS HEWITT Star Tribune... In its obsession with surfaces and design, as well as its hero's demonstration of an odd moral code, it reminded me of classic French thrillers by Jean-Pierre Melville, who made "Le Samourai" and "Army of Shadows." ... Oct ... Oct ... .
... one behind you — a bracingly existentialist philosophy that goes with the mid-century modern vibes from the film’s many references to Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 classic Le Samourai.
Hastings Tribune
21 Nov 2023
Hastings Tribune
21 Nov 2023