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Grisbi engages lightly with regular themes such as hoodlums, nightclubs, gangsters’ girls and gunfights. Becker adds to this an attention to "everyday rituals" particularly in a scene where they take wine and pâté on toast at a secret apartment.
One of the most iconic ingredients of the film is its famous Grisbi theme, played on the harmonica by Jean Wiener and composed by Marc Lanjean. The following year, the theme became a hit single (under the title Le Grisbi), performed by the celebrated jazz musician Aimé Barelli.
- Jacques Becker
Aug 14, 2017 · Jacques Becker’s Touchez Pas au Grisbi, now on Blu-Ray as part of StudioCanal’s series of Becker reissues, begins with something approaching the prototype of this scene. A group of sharp-suited men are celebrating in a cafe, as the owner winds the shutters down for the night.
Touchez pas au grisbi: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli. An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Becker
- 1960-02
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.
- Shaun Scott
Touchez Pas au Grisbi. Roger Ebert February 01, 2004. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Growing older is a balancing act between skills that have never been better, and abilities that sometimes betray. At 50, Max the Liar has never possessed more wisdom about his profession of burglary.
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Jan 17, 2005 · Grisbi contains plenty of the requisite genre elements—double-crossings, violence, kidnappings, gun battles, and the like—but it’s also a pensive meditation on age, friendship, and lost opportunities. The film was hugely influential, setting the tone of French policiers for years to come.
