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Daily Archives: May 10, 2017
Max and the Junkmen (Sautet, 1971) and Perfect Friday (Hall, 1970)
Claude Sautet’s Max and the Junkmen is such a good, hard-boiled, existential crime film. Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider are great as the eponymous detective Max and Lily, the prostitute whom he fools into aiding and abetting a crime. Sautet’s style … Continue reading