{"id":237,"date":"2005-06-22T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=237"},"modified":"2005-06-22T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T20:36:14","slug":"bob-le-flambeur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/06\/bob-le-flambeur\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Le Flambeur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047892\/\">Bob<\/a> is a gambler. (From the comments, a flambeur is an addicted gambler) He\u2019s an aging hood who has survived the war and he has a generous side that looks after the youngsters joining the gangs. Bob doesn\u2019t like pimps. Bob has many friends, both underworld and cops, because Bob is basically a nice guy. Life happens; Bob gambles and wins some and loses some. Eventually he loses most of it. Then he hears about a casino safe that is ripe for the looting. (Bob did time for a bank robbery in his youth.) He organizes a posse to rob the casino. Unfortunately, a pimp that Bob leaned on tries to snitch. In the End, did Bob really lose? Or did he win?<\/p>\n<p>This is a French film, released in 1955. Isabelle Corey, as the young waif, alone, makes this film worth seeing. Interesting that her career only lasted 6 years. From the commentary, I gathered that this film took two years to make. The director\/writer\/producer, Jean-Pierre Melville, would call the actors to come in to shoot for a day or two whenever there was money to buy film.<\/p>\n<p>This is a slow-paced film, allowing the viewer to get the feel for the Parisian settings and the people. The action isn\u2019t all that important, it just happens.<\/p>\n<p>The cinematography is very good, Melville plays with the black and whites and grays very suggestively. Each of the characters shows a human side and you can\u2019t pigeon-hole them as \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d, they\u2019re people.<\/p>\n<p>I will give this a 7 out of ten.   Might have been more if there had been more action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob is a gambler. (From the comments, a flambeur is an addicted gambler) He\u2019s an aging hood who has survived the war and he has a generous side that looks after the youngsters joining the gangs. Bob doesn\u2019t like pimps. Bob has many friends, both underworld and cops, because Bob is basically a nice guy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/06\/bob-le-flambeur\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bob Le Flambeur<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-3P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}