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Symphonie pour un massacre

  • 1963
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Symphonie pour un massacre (1963)
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Five men collaborate to buy drugs, but one steals the money and all the rest are killed as they make mistakes.Five men collaborate to buy drugs, but one steals the money and all the rest are killed as they make mistakes.Five men collaborate to buy drugs, but one steals the money and all the rest are killed as they make mistakes.

  • Director
    • Jacques Deray
  • Writers
    • Alain Reynaud-Fourton
    • José Giovanni
    • Claude Sautet
  • Stars
    • Michel Auclair
    • Claude Dauphin
    • José Giovanni
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
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    • Director
      • Jacques Deray
    • Writers
      • Alain Reynaud-Fourton
      • José Giovanni
      • Claude Sautet
    • Stars
      • Michel Auclair
      • Claude Dauphin
      • José Giovanni
    • 8User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Michel Auclair
    Michel Auclair
    • Clavet
    Claude Dauphin
    Claude Dauphin
    • Valoti
    José Giovanni
    • Moreau
    Michèle Mercier
    Michèle Mercier
    • Madeleine Clavet
    Daniela Rocca
    Daniela Rocca
    • Hélène Valoti
    Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort
    • Jabeke
    Charles Vanel
    Charles Vanel
    • Paoli
    Claude Cerval
    Claude Cerval
      Jean Degrave
      • L'employé de la salle de jeux
      • (uncredited)
      Maurice Garrel
      Maurice Garrel
        Billy Kearns
        • Un client américain
        • (uncredited)
        Pierre Mirat
          Marcello Pagliero
          • Cerutti
          • (uncredited)
          • Director
            • Jacques Deray
          • Writers
            • Alain Reynaud-Fourton
            • José Giovanni
            • Claude Sautet
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          7/10
          Late in the day noir
          Symphony for a massacre, as the French wording has it, never particularly rises above the contract of its title. Neither does it, via the medium of the crime thriller deliver any poignant commentary on life, as you might get from Melville in Le deuxième souffle (referring to a second wind you may get in later life), or via the medium of a "buddies movie" deliver any poignant commentary on male solidarity, as you might get from Duvivier in La Belle Equipe. It is a film where people are simply killed sequentially, but without the panache that grand guignol would rely upon to float the same property. It suffers perhaps from being quite late in the day, in 1963, for creating such a work of noir, too far from the pessimistic thoughts and hardships arising from the Second World War.

          Of course there are master actors and actresses involved in the movie and three master directors, so it is not reasonable for me to suggest it is a turkey, but I have seen better films of its type, at least to my taste. There are occasional flourishes in the dialogue, Charles Vanel's Paoli darkly offering some "paté de merles" or "paté of blackbirds" to his co-conspirator, but it does feel like a Michel Audiard could have been bought in to tighten things up.

          The film attempts to make an impact through the use of symphonic music in fairly uneventful scenes, and this element did not work for me. Much better the minimalism of Le Samouraï.
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          • Release date
            • May 27, 1965 (United States)
          • Countries of origin
            • France
            • Italy
          • Language
            • French
          • Also known as
            • Sieben Tote hat die Woche
          • Filming locations
            • Gare de Lyon, Paris 12, Paris, France(on location)
          • Production companies
            • Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC)
            • PECF
            • Dear Film Produzione
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          • Runtime
            1 hour 55 minutes
          • Color
            • Black and White
          • Sound mix
            • Mono
          • Aspect ratio
            • 1.66 : 1

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