Jacques Deray
| Best films: 6.5 Symphonie pour un Massacre (1963) 6.9 La Piscine (1968) 6.9 Borsalino (1970) | Links: |
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Jacques Deray (France, 1929),
assistant to Luis Bunuel and Jules Dassin, debuted with derivative noir films like
Le Gigolo (1960) and
Rififi in Tokyo (1963).
Best was Symphonie pour un Massacre (1963).
It was followed by other mediocre film noirs:
Par un beau Matin d'Ete'/ Crime on a Summer Morning (1965),
Avec la Peau des Autres/ To Skin a Spy (1966),
L'Homme de Marrakech/ That Man George (1966).
the psychological thriller La Piscine/ The Swimming Pool (1968), with Romy Schneider e Alain Delon as sadomaso lovers, Delon assassino di un possibile rivale; the gangster movie Borsalino (1970), starring both Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, Then came: Doucement les Basses/ Easy Down There (1971), Un peu de Soleil dans l'Eau Froide/ A Little Sun in Cold Water (1971), Un Homme est Mort/The Outside Man (1972), the sequel Borsalino & Co (1974), the police thriller Flic story (1975), Le Gang (1977), set during World War II, Un Papillon sur l'Epaule/ Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978), Trois Hommes a Abattre/ Three Men to Kill (1980), Le Marginal (1983), On ne Meurt que deux Fois/ He Died with His Eyes Open (1985), Le Solitaire (1987), Maladie d'Amour (1987), etc.
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