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- Loosely based on an apparently trashy novel by Albert Simonin, it's a kind of post-caper film, in which the robbery of eight gold bars isn't shown and barely discussed by those who pulled the job.
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Touchez pas au grisbi ([tu.ʃe pɑ o ɡʁiz.bi], French for "Don't touch the loot"), released as Honour Among Thieves in the United Kingdom and Grisbi in the United States, is a 1954 French-Italian crime film based on a novel by Albert Simonin.
Jan 17, 2005 · His ambition, he once said—only partly tongue-in-cheek—was to make a film “with no beginning, no end, and virtually no story.” He was born into a well-off Parisian family; his father was a prominent industrialist and his mother a Scottish-born fashion designer.
Nov 25, 2014 · Becker’s 1954 film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), often translated into English as “Don’t Touch the Loot”, therefore appears as a loaded artistic statement by an ageing don who died shortly before younger radicals would, in the eyes of many critics and historians, render him obsolete.
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Jan 17, 2005 · The actual police have virtually no role to play in Grisbi’s parallel order of reality: it’s the gangsters who inhabit a realm of constant mutual surveillance, the domain of permanent mistrust of which Max is master only because he’s two degrees smarter than anyone around him.
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi ("Don't Touch The Loot") has a great story, superior performances, largely from Jean Gabin, but most essentially it plays against a great backdrop of thugs, prostitutes and other underworld characters — here shot in many genuinely seedy settings in and around Montmartre.
Nov 7, 2020 · Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, translated to “Hands Off The Loot” in English, rarely gives much pretense of being a crime picture. Sure the people within its interiors are criminal types; it’s easy enough to decipher just watching and listening, but this is a film reminding us how mundane even their lives can be.
Feb 1, 2004 · "The real subjects of 'Grisbi'," Truffaut concludes, "are aging and friendship." Consider the scene where Riton looks at the bags under his eyes in the mirror, to see if they are as bad as Max said. Remember Max saying he doesn't want to go to the nightclub because he fears he will get drowsy.
