Presented in the original French with English subtitles.
LE SAMOURAI follows Jef Costello, a contract killer who lives by silence, precision, and solitude. When a hit goes wrong, his perfect world begins to crumble.
Jean-Pierre Melville distills film noir into pure style, crafting a cool, minimal study of alienation and fate. Alain Delon’s performance defines the archetype of the existential antihero: detached, immaculate, and doomed.
Critics praised its formal perfection, calling it the bridge between American noir and European modernism. It remains one of cinema’s most elegant meditations on professionalism and loneliness.
If you liked Fincher's recent THE KILLER (2023), or even if you hated it, theres no denying the latter inherited Melville’s minimalist discipline and existential tone. Its antihero, narration, and clinical framing are direct descendants. Fincher’s assassin walks in Jef Costello’s shadow.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani. Enter via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on the left behind the jewellery stand to L1, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
