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Perhaps best known for his suited 1991 film, Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter), Claude Sautet’s earlier, crisp black-and-white, 60s gangster film, Classe tous risques (Deem All Risks), stars Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo (two icons of French cinema), and Sandra Milo. Banned from 1961 to 1968, and based on a fresh by José Giovanni, the film has a Jean-Pierre Melville-Bob le Flambeur influence. After pulling off a plucky payroll heist on the streets of Milan (where he has been hiding for roughly a decade), French fugitive gang boss Abel Davos (Ventura) returns to Paris, despite a French death sentence. Before completing this one last job of his career, Davos puts his Italian wife Therese (Simone France) and two sons on a disclose to France. Then his gain Milan getaway goes awry, and Abel and his partner in crime, Raymond (Stan Krol), wind up on a boat to Nice. Hunted by the police, Davos’ stale friends send a seemingly inexperienced kid in a loud, tweed jacket named Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo of Godard’s Breathless) to accompany him attend to Paris. Initially insulted by what he perceives to be an act of dishonor, Abel soon warms up to the kid, who has a distinct savoir resplendent with the French girls (Milo) . Although Belmondo received all the attention for his performance in Breathless, which was released in 1960–the same year as Sautet’s film, Classe tous risques remains an undiscovered French gem of ganster film that will appeal to anyone who likes French cinema in the tradition of Bob le Flambeur, Le Samourai, Rififi, or Le Cercle Rouge.
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The Criterion edition of this film features a newly restored transfer; excerpts from Claude Sautet ou la magie invisible, a 2003 documentary on the director by writers N. T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin; an interview with Classe tous risques novelist and screenwriter José Giovanni; interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career; the new French and U.S. trailers; and current essays by director Bertrand Tavernier and Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville.
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Classe Tous Risques (The Gigantic Risk) is a French gangster movie that doesn’t try for style. That’s why it has style. Because the movie is so underplayed and so matter-of-fact, it becomes more and more though-provoking. And because Abel Davos is played by Lino Ventura, we wind up emotionally invested in this taciturn, tough killer who loves his wife and kids, has an encounter with customs agents on the shore approach Nice at night that neither he nor we put a question to, and who proves unprejudiced as willing to shoot a cop or a betrayer with as tiny emotion as flicking off a bit of lint. We first meet Davos in Italy with his wife and their two diminutive boys, one about 9 and one 4.
“This man was Abel Davos, sentenced to death in absentia,” we’re told. “On the rush for years, he had watched his resources dwindle, even as his fear kept him on the travel. With the Italian police closing in each day, France was again his best bet. Maybe he’d been forgotten.”
Davos was a top gangster in Paris who took care of his friends. That was several years ago. A heist to give him money to return to France goes very unfavorable. Now he’s hiding out with his two kids. He calls his friends in Paris to aid him out. He and his kids need to come by from Nice to Paris but the police are hunting him and they’ve region up roadblocks. For Davos’ two best friends, time has passed and they’ve moved on. They don’t want to keep themselves at risk, and for what? Obligation gives may to caution. So they hire a young thief, Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo), to bewitch up Davos and the children in an ambulance, then to drive to Paris with Davos heavily bandaged and the children hidden. We’re on a stir where Davos’ options are increasingly cramped, where he must regain ways to have his children cared for, where he realizes there are no more ties of friendship, where betrayal seems likely, and where quite possibly his only friend left is Eric Stark.
This somewhat cynical movie works so well because it does its job without fussing about. There are no trench coats with pulled-up collars, no toying with the melodrama of the gangster code so many French directors have loved. Classe tous Risques gives us Abel Davos, a man who once was somebody, who now is sliding down to be nobody, and who reacts with violence and resignation.
Lino Ventura dominates the movie, yet when he is paired with Jean-Paul Belmondo a involving chemistry happens. Ventura as Davos is grim and shocked about caring for his sons. He is humiliated by his status. He is a tough man who sees killing someone, if needed, as unprejudiced fraction of the business he’s in. Belmondo as the young thief who initially is sent to be an expendable driver and winds up being a friend to count on, provides the brightness that keeps the movie from being unprejudiced one more go down the elevator. Belmondo was 27 and looks younger. His unlikely star power as a lead actor — broken nose, under-slung jaw — shines good off the mask. He makes Erik a match for Ventura when they fraction a scene. And Belmondo’s scenes with Liliane (Sandra Milo), the young woman who becomes his girl friend, radiate charm and good-natured sex appeal. The ending is bittersweet fate, and without a stylistic posture in look. We hear Davos say, “Abel’s gone. There’s nothing left.” It would be well worth watching Classe tous Risques to learn what he means.
There are many glorious French gangster films. I’d station this one true there with Touchez Pas au Grisbi - Criterion Collection and Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection. To watch one of Lino Ventura’s finest performances, eye Army of Shadows - Criterion Collection. They are all Criterion releases, as this one is. The DVD transfer is gorgeous and there are several spicy extras.
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