THE RED CIRCLE (1970) | 4K Restoration | Official Trailer | Dir. by Jean-Pierre Melville

For his penultimate full-length film, Jean-Pierre Melville is back to his favourite genre, the detective thriller, that he mastered with films such as THE FINGER MAN (Original title : LE DOULOS) or THE GODSON (Original title : LE SAMOURAÏ). Brilliant exercise of style where the filmmaker pushes the sound to the extreme taste for the purity, THE RED CIRCLE is similar to a funeral ballet: Melville orchestrates with precision the movements of his lonely heroes, thugs and cops reunited by destiny, to which the actors Alain Delon, Yves Montand, André Bourvil and Gian Maria Volonté are lending admirably their features.
Today restored in 4K for its 50th anniversary, THE RED CIRCLE remains Melville's greatest success to which many directors have paid tribute, from Jim Jarmusch to John Woo or Michael Mann. The 4K version was selected by Venice International Film Festival and was premiered at Bologna's Il Cinema Ritrovato in August 2020.
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[@ususfructus5274]

Rest in peace Alain Delon. This is one of my favourite films - Delon, Bourvil, Montand, Volonté... All of them were simply great

[@FLiCKMAAAN]

Just watched the 4k version, a terrific movie. I love how deliberate every detail is. No unnecessary effects, sounds or dialogue. What a stark contrast to modern cinema.

[@vb8428]

In a way it's a good thing that every filmmaker didn't copy this style that was also not Melville's creation.

[@UNSTABLE111]

uuuhhh are you sure...plenty of modern indies have done stuff like this..Drive is a good example, and also A bittersweet life..

[@kinoirvoidjustice]

​@@UNSTABLE111drive straight up takes jef costello and turns him into ryan gosling, so yeah obvious influences there

[@anilbalsure1214]

Where did u found buddy..?

[@magesalmanac6424]

Dudes love to complain that things aren’t “like the good old days.” Even if you had good suggestions they would disregard them. Old people hate new things usually.

[@thatcgiguy2268]

Holy freaking crap, that might've been the best trailer i've ever seen

[@tomp8871]

Stop....no it wasn't. 🤣😁🤣

[@MarquisDeSang]

This is definitely top tier.

[@lotanowo]

Really? THE BEST trailer you've ever seen, and you're not being hyperbolic?

[@gauravpati]

no way that cutting hurt my eyes

[@edm5378]

@@gauravpati Professionals have no mercy. It's just business.

[@MMaSKiLo]

Rip Alain delon, left us so many great movies

[@ligeiasinistra879]

My parents loved French crime movies. I was about 8 or 9 years old when we went to see it. Uplifting melancholy. "All men are guilty, Mattei"

[@nimazsheik5152]

Finished the movie just 5 minutes back, absolutely amazing. Love how professional the characters are, modern cinema can't make em like they used to. Phenomenal trailer too!

[@ClassicTor]

where did you watch it or did you buy it?

[@edm5378]

This obviously influenced John Woo's hitmen, Johnnie To's The Mission (Delon turned down To's Vegeance), Kim Jee-woon's A Bittersweet Life, & Michael Mann.

[@catherinefotic4614]

One of the best Melville "film noire" as "Le Doulos" with Jean-Paul Belmondo. One of the best roles of Alain Delon and Yves Montand. And also the last movie (or almost Last) of André Bourvil who died after the release of the "Red circle".. Bourvil was popular as a great comic french actor but in this movie, he played a dramatic role.. Impressive!

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Bourvil was one of the best Thénardiers I have seen (and I have seen many). I have this movie on dvd, it's really beautiful. Alain Delon and Gian Maria Volonté have excellent chemistry, and I really love noirs/neo-noirs with a tragic ending.

[@AS-qg1xu]

I LOVE Delon's and Volante's characters' relationship with each other

[@giuseppecaggiano85]

Great movie. Alain Delon is the man.

[@youandshelovesme]

Real man

[@Alain-Delon]

No, the man is Yves Montand

[@robbo03]

Just watched this film yesterday. Absolutely brilliant. I also watched Le Samourai recently after seeing Tarantino talk about Jean-Pierre Melville. Melville is a master. Now I'm going to explore the rest of his catalogue.

[@polreamonn]

Bob le Flambeur is brilliant. Forget about the Nick Nolte remake.

[@robbo03]

@@polreamonn that's on my watch list!

[@behelit1997]

This film is so relevant even for today standards

[@aHarshPundit]

I goddamn straight up LOVE StudioCanal's restorations and its trailers!

[@delboy-su3wf]

When I lived in Spain as teen canal plus WD show porn at night . Some times it WD be homosexual porn so it was a gamble every time I new porn WD show.

[@Allan-zb7mb]

Melville is one of my director gods, he had his own studios and was totally independent and this is my absolute favorite Melville flic together with "Le Samurai" and "Le Doulos" but also all other movies from him are masterpieces , such directors you will find nowadays very seldomly !!

[@powerofberzerker9487]

I love Melville films. I'm gonna have to say underrated.

[@mmka5434]

One of the most fantastic movies I have ever watched! Alain Delon is amazing!

[@aclockworkpeon5572]

Great film, due for a rewatching. RIP Alain Delon

[@user-bp7xm5vj8g]

I cannot wait to get hold of this and to see Delon and Gian Maria Volonte on film - together. I can't imagine how wonderful they're going to be. They'll be burning a whole through the film stock! Great actors, both.

[@fonduaunoir8259]

Magnifique Trailer

[@icydelon]

obsessed with this trailer

[@humayunmirza6835]

Fantastic Trailer. I don't have a 4K television yet, but this film is one of the reasons why it's on the wish list.

[@sfermigier]

One of the best heist films of all time, but not only that. Every time I watched it, I discovered new details and new ideas. While at first (as a child) I was more interested in the action-oriented characters, it's ultimately the duo of Commissaire François Mattei (played by Bourvil) and the Director of Police (Paul Crachet) that I find the most subtle.

[@saadiali1552]

i thought it was a bond movie made in 2020. such beautifully made

[@debbieharry387]

Brillliant film!!!One of the best thrillrs I ve EVER seen,

[@sergbruskov2728]

Melville is such a great story teller

[@Alexwhatisit]

Damn, I’m just getting into 4k collecting and this one looks like a BANGER of a film.

[@elranchogrande66]

Is it good? 👀

[@Alexwhatisit]

@@elranchogrande66 haven’t seen it yet but remembered to order it last night since it came out on criterion collection 4k.

[@icydelon]

it's great, hope you already seen it

[@Olivier-cr8ri]

Un vrai grand film.

[@radupopescu2370]

It's a masterpiece.

[@shantihealer]

Love the early scenes showing the legendary Blue Train that used to connect Paris with the South of France. And the first encounter between the two crooks is filmed like a Western in wide angle view as they distantly face each other in front of a barren snowy landscape.

[@Sdea1903]

I must have watched this trailer 200 times its great

[@josepdalmauanglada]

The Glory and the Perfection ¡ of the A Delon & J P Melville, Lux and Very Thank you

[@tylerdordon99]

Brilliant movie. One of the best ever imo

[@andynixon2820]

This is a really superb film .

[@alaincelos476]

Do love the film noir scene ,when Volonte get out off the back of the car , twice in the middle of a field ...Delon sittin on a carriage...

[@alanrogs3990]

Great film! Awesome Sunday afternoon movie.

[@TheMiist]

Hell of a trailer

[@HeritageCast]

Great job on a modern trailer for Le Cercle Rouge...

[@mrRicearoni34]

rest in peace legend!

[@stefanwilman418]

Looking forward to watching ‘Odds against tomorrow’, that Melvillle liked so much that he asked the composer Demarsan to make the same kind of jazz soundtrack.

[@jimmyj1969]

Ι'd say Demarsan copied the John Lewis music from "Odds against tomorrow"!

[@edm5378]

It creates a bigger world than the visuals

[@Dyidyidyi]

The masterpiece

[@margeritd217]

Обожаю этот фильм! Классика! Восторг!

[@karga23]

Melville's best film.

[@tinlunlau1]

This was the only other Melville film I saw. Guillermo del Toro would used to joke at the expense of my infatuation of Alain Delon back in the day. I still need to watch Rififi as he personally assigned me to do. 😂

[@shibbuyadav4851]

Marvellous creation

[@dominiqueguisset1243]

Bonjour très bon moment merci beaucoup.

[@WillLianti]

this looks very good.

[@KinglordFranon]

this trailer has more music than the whole movie

[@rustyshackelford934]

Melville was my favorite of the French directors at that time. There's a reason they referred to him as the Godfather of the French New Wave.

[@ConradSpoke]

This is the way to do a *right now* trailer for a 70s film.

[@B.B.Digital_Forest]

Two great actors.

[@TheSmsawyer]

I always thought “Le Cercle Rouge” referred to a bullet wound. Damn I love this director.

[@houssamassila6274]

Where the hell is this France now?

[@htww1205]

A film by Jean Pierre Melville A trailer by Chris Nolan

[@gummoman]

OMAIGAD! the films of Melville are beatufull! 🤩

[@jeremyfraga5235]

NOW THAT IS HOW YOU DO A TRAILER

[@mrmillcake8525]

That is one cool Trailer!

[@theprisonerofzenda2862]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Superbe

[@Shotter]

I love that non-American films have normal looking people in them. Not everyone in real life is a toned tanned hunk.

[@yoshomiamoto]

That was too 🔥🔥🔥

[@28-r8b]

why was the past so stylish?

[@bennywoo1918]

really good film hate the ending though he didnt deserve to go out like that was well gutted

[@emmanuelgilliot6128]

VIVE ALAIN DELON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@farrukhshah6549]

All men Mr. Mattei. All men.

[@cool1234881]

What? This was made in the 70s. They did a really good job resorting this film, I thought this was a 90s film or something.

[@glassarthouse]

RIP Alain Delon

[@shhahsgshshah215]

The Cinema that we lose

[@vitoosmail6140]

The trailer music seems a bit out of place. Juxtaposition of modern trailer music and the movie from the 70s.

[@polreamonn]

The heist scene is so fricking tense.

[@myfriendcameron]

Does anyone know the names of the songs they use in this trailer, or where they just made for the trailer?

[@DukeMedia47]

ever find out ?

[@OzgeKatip]

​@@DukeMedia47Time Up - Wall of Noise, from fhe Shepard Tones (2020) album, not to be confused with the album Time's Up (2022). Haven't found it on KZbin, might be only on Spotify.

[@SeriousJB]

when a 1970s movie gets a 2020s trailer

[@andregraven8656]

O filme perfeito!

[@EscapeCondition]

Not familiar with this movie but looks incredible

[@Ya-sinDebieve]

france don't make movies likes this anymore

[@dora1980]

Noone makes movies like this anymore.

[@cptdoobs3691]

Where/How do I watch this?

[@dora1980]

Google it. Maybe there are sites where you can find it for free.

[@Слава-г8м]

❤❤❤

[@daweller]

Alain Delon owned the 70s and some of the 80s.

[@dora1980]

And the '60s.

[@MANZANOADRIAN]

En la cineteca nacional

[@domagojmrkusic4797]

❤

[@byc1013]

the French made some of the best films ever

[@Whatta33]

Good ol’ europian cinematography. If you not born in Europe you wouldn’t get it tho

[@qualityposts2011]

where are people watching this on?

[@user-qs8ei2gu2s]

日本公開題名は仁義

[@Kashif314]

Haven't seen the movie. Is it worth a blind buy in 4k?

[@enricoroca671]

Yes, definitely if you like the noir genre

[@Kashif314]

@@enricoroca671 thanks. The review for the blu ray is said to be very bad.

[@enricoroca671]

@@Kashif314 I've seen this restoration at the theatre and for me it looked very good.

[@Kashif314]

@@enricoroca671 thank you. For some reason bluray website said its a bad tranfer but even from the trailer it looks a good transfer. You own the 4k blu ray and have seen the pic quality on 4k blu ray as well or only in theaters?

[@enricoroca671]

@@Kashif314 Only in theatre, but it seems strange to me that Studiocanal did a bad transfer on the 4K disc with this source material. The Elephant Man and Ran are very good on 4K. Sorry, I cannot be very helpful in this case...

[@Janet71990]

What Rated G, PG, PG-14 or R-18?

[@glassarthouse]

broooooooooooo

[@AS-qg1xu]

How do i buy this movie?

[@endgamefond]

this is 4D. I can clearly see the pores on the skins!

[@jonesnax]

You need to digitally remove that cigarette 🤣🤣 (like JB movies!!😢)

[@rocco080401]

Alain :(

[@epicotakugamer4930]

I see a PSL God.

[@jmalmsten]

I will probably never really understand the need distributors feel to make a "modern" trailer for old movies. The result feels so contraproductive.

[@JonathanNelsonOfficial]

Zac Efron is clearly a clone of Alain Delon.

[@dora1980]

Not at all.They are completely different.

[@JonathanNelsonOfficial]

@@dora1980 look again.

[@alternateunreleasedshellac505]

I hate modern trailer remakes such as this, or just trailers in general tbh.

[@dealerovski82]

is thiz even allowed?

[@schlongersaurus]

that moustache is ridiculous

[@briancardio6567]

Awful color grading.

[@JohnDouille]

I don't think you've seen mich cinema to say that

[@briancardio6567]

@@JohnDouille the job was good,but I don't think that was what Melville intended.

[@HeritageCast]

Was this even a thing back then? Although there is a huge opportunity for someone with some creativity to Recut these classics. So minor edits in color, pacing, and say the silly fake driving scene redo them. This would be fun project and bring new life into these movies. Even if its just small edits and color..

[@jacobringenwald]

"How many times have you watched this trailer?" "Yes"