Rififi

Rififi

1956 Not Rated 1h 58m Criterion Collection

After five years in prison, Tony le Stéphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati, who invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous Mappin and Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of Louis Grutter, gangster owner of the L' Âge d' Or nightclub, and he humiliates and beats her for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar errs by giving a valuable ring to his mistress.

Director
Jules Dassin
Starring
Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
My Rating
★★★★☆ 8.0 / 10
Format & Location
Format: Blu-ray
Location: Shelf
Date Added
November 11, 2024

Review

This review may contain spoilers.

Ryan Jerz’s review published on Letterboxd:
I started out kind of hating this and wondering if I'd finish. I slugged through it and began to really like it by the time the heist became a gangster shootout thing.

In the end, I felt like a bad guy finally got what was coming to him. And it was fun along the way.