Cloportes (1965)
La métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:38:04 | 4,44 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English (added)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:38:04 | 4,44 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English (added)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
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Cloportes (1965)
"Cloportes" is a film from a very crowded genre–European heist films. With such classics as "Rififi", "Grand Slam" and "Bob le Flambeur" (and many others), it is hard for "Cloportes" to stand out from the crowd. However, it has one big advantage–it stars the king of cool French gangsters, Lino Ventura. And as for Ventura, he made several other heist films such as "Touchez Pas au Grisbi", "La Bonne Annee" and "Le Deuxième Soufflé"! As I said, it's a crowded genre!
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Ventura is a big-time crook. Against his better judgment, he agrees to finance a safe cracking job–even though the guys seem like complete amateurs. He needs the money to keep living his lavish lifestyle and lets down his guard. And, because they are idiots, their ineptness result in Ventura being captured and sent to prison. He does not talk about who else was involved with the caper–he just does his time. But he's mad–not just because these guys bungled the job but because they lied in order to get his financing–and this lie resulted in him losing several years of his life. Not surprisingly, he's out for revenge.
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Fortunately, unlike the other heist movies this one is a bit difference. The heist itself only occupies the beginning of the film–much more of it is focused on what happens afterwords. And, of all the characters Ventura encounters after prison, the most interesting must be the beautiful woman played by Irina Demick! Well worth seeing and with a nice twist near the end. Not among Ventura's best–but considering how wonderful he always was, this isn't an insult to "Cloportes"–it's still a terrific film.IMDB Reviewer
Cloportes (1965)
La Métamorphose des cloportes is a typically French comedy policier of the kind that was very popular in the mid-1960s. After the success of Georges Lautner’s 1963 film Les Tontons flingueurs, other directors were keen to exploit the popularity of the comedy-thriller genre, and La Métamorphose des cloportes is perhaps one of the best of examples of its kind.
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Screenwriter Michel Audiard and actor Lino Ventura, two of the main reasons for the success of Les Tontons flingueurs, once again apply their talents to a genre that clearly favours them both. Regarded as the definitive hard man of the French thriller genre in the 1960s and 1970s, Ventura has great charisma and style, and also a very individual penchant for downbeat comedy – all of which makes him indispensable casting for a parody thriller. Several other notable names figure in the cast list – Pierre Brasseur and Françoise Rosay, two actors with very distinguished filmographies stretching back to the 1920s, and Charles Aznavour, who subsequently became one of France’s most successful pop singers.
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Unlike many comedy thrillers of the 1960s, La Métamorphose des cloportes retains its appeal, partly through its seductive, unusually classy visual style, which is both an homage and parody of film noir, and also through its restrained, off-the-wall humour. Director Pierre Granier-Deferre is reputed for directing some stylish thrillers in the 1970s, but this is unquestionably one of his most inspired works.
Cloportes (1965)
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