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Le deuxième souffle. With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him.
- Gustave 'Gu' Minda
Le deuxième souffle (translated into English as Second Wind or Second Breath) is a 1966 French crime-thriller film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, and Christine Fabréga. It is based on the novel Le deuxième souffle by José Giovanni.
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Second Wind (French: Un second souffle) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Gérard Blain, starring Robert Stack and Anicée Alvina. It tells the story of a man in his 50s who leaves his wife and children to live with a woman 30 years younger than himself, only to discover an unsettling link between the woman and a man of his age ...
Sep 13, 1978 · Un second souffle: Directed by Gérard Blain. With Robert Stack, Anicée Alvina, Sophie Desmarets, Mareike Carrière. Francis Davis, 50, has left wife and children. He has an affair with a young actress, Catherine. Obsessed by his aging, he does everything to stay "young".
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- Drama
- Gérard Blain
- 1978-09-13
The film surprised many viewers as few realized Stack was willing to spoof his granite-faced stoicism, but it won him over many new fans, and his dead-pan intensity would be used to perfect comic effect the following year as Captain Rex Kramer (who can forget the sight of him beating up Hare Krishnas at the airport?) in David and Jerry Zucker's ...
Overview. An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another younger lover, he gets jealous, but tries not to make an issue of it.
