Perry Kate
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
DipitySkillful
an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Freeman
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
laetitiapayombo
In this crime film there is no noise with useless music. Simplicity and mastery do the work. Watching Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Bourvil is a real pleasure. Jean-Pierre Melville delivers a Masterpiece and I'm thankful for such greatness.
rodrig58
Hard to tell who is the best actor in this movie, Delon, Bourvil, Montand, Périer or Volontè? Because all five are excellent. Directed by Cinema Expert Jean-Pierre Melville, all five are self-surpassing, every one, depending on the size of the role. Montand and Perier have secondary roles but they do a great job. Delon is better than in most of his other films, except perhaps Le Samouraï (1967) directed by the same Melville. Volontè is as incredible as in all his movies, simply the greatest actor ever. The total surprise of this "Le Cercle Rouge" is Bourvil, who plays a unique role throughout all his career, here he is no longer the comic simpleton of many previous films, but a policeman as never seen before. Great direction, great cinematography by Henri Decaë, everything great. Absolute masterpiece!
alexdeleonfilm
Viewed at the Golden Apricot Film Festival, Yerevan, 2017. The peak film of the Yerevan week was without a doubt "Le Cercle Rouge", the 1970 all star gangland thriller by master of the genre, Jean-Pierre Melville. Not as well known as his younger Nouvelle Vague disciples, Truffaut and Godard, but a much better filmmaker, Melville specialized in deliberately paced psychological thrillers in which top French stars delivered some of their best performances. At the very beginning we are informed that the cryptic title, The Red Circle, comes from a fatalistic Buddhist capsule of wisdom which states that no matter what their divergent paths may be all men end up in the same Red Circle. The three men with the divergent paths here are (1) Corey, a cool gangster just released from prison and hoping to go straight (Alain Delon), (2j Vogel, a desperado killer on the lam, (Italian star Gian Maria Volonte) and (3) Jansen, a retired expert police marksman with a drinking problem and questionable morals (Yves Montand). They come together by fate to successfully pull off a tremendous midnight jewelry heist on Ritzy Place Vendôme in central Paris but will all end up in the fatal Red Circle due to a complex network of interlocking intrigues and betrayals. Bravado, integrity, and betrayal are recurrent themes in Melville films. Pulling them in to the fatal circle is another iconic French actor, Bourvil, as the wily cat loving detective relentlessly tracking the escaped Vogel all across France from Marseille to Paris, there callously exploiting his major informant contacts. (François Périer, another major French character actor). The long heist scene filmed in complete silence is spellbinding and a tribute of sorts to a similar scene in the Jules Dassin technically perfect crime thriller "Rififi" of 1955. Together with "Le Samouaï", another Melville masterpiece also starring Delon, Red Circle is an enduring twin peaks of French thriller cinema. Breathless entertainment all the way, and the work of a master craftsman at the top of his game. Cercle Rouge was part of a five film tribute to Maître Melville in the Armenian capital on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Kirpianuscus
for the story. for acting. for music. and for the wise manner to define each character. after many films from same genre in the "60'-"70', Le Cercle Rouge cold seems be part of a series. but the work of a great director, a splendid cast - the performance of Bourvil is one of the great revelations -, the care for details and the shadows of personal stories as mixture of flavors are the virtues of a thriller who remains more than memorable. a film about few people as signs of theirs worlds. about duty. and about forms of madness. all - very simple. almost like drawings of a state of soul. a film about solitude.and a splendid atmosphere.short, a film who must see. maybe, only for the delicacy to expose delicate things who define each of us.
