Du rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin, 1955)
A band of French gangsters plan a heist to rob for 240
millions of francs worth of jewelries. This pretty film is regarded as widely
influential on the French New Wave with its two jump cuts. It also was a clear
influence on Stanley Kubrick’s The
Killing and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir
Dogs. The scene at the middle of the film setting in details the robbery
was made without any dialogues and the omnipresent music of composer Georges Auric. It is rumored that the
techniques pictured in Rififi was
used many times by robbers from all around the world.
