Le Doulos (1962)

THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR aka “Film Noir Month” is rolling along and you might call it “criminal” that we’re discussing only one French Noir. Ahhhh, the French. They coined the genre after its peak and plucked the inspiration for its 60s New Wave works and today’s feature is from a founding father in the French New Wave oeuvre. Our youngest movie discussion this month is this film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville from 1962 called, “LE DOULOS” and it stars Jean-Paul Belmondo & Serge Reggiani. “Le Doulas” means “The Hat” and it’s underworld slang for “police informant”. Maurice is fresh out of the pokey and has just slain a supposed friend, his other supposed friend, Silien, seems to be talking to the police but only in very specific ways that seems to protect Maurice but not the people around him. What’s going on here? That looks like he could have been Mr. Bean’s dad. Can these foxy French ladies in their swinging sixties French style be trusted? Can you really be friends with Cops and Hoods at the same time? It all unravels in our first Melville movie discussion and here’s a link to the movie right here if you speak or read French: https://archive.org/details/LeDoulos It’s also on the Plex app for free as of this writing but the commercials are very annoying.

 

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