Writing about Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ for Reverse Shot's Objects Symposium

“Le Samouraï presents us not for the first time with a fully interiorized, “locked-in” Melville protagonist, like Bob in Bob le flambeur or Maudet in Magnet of Doom (1963), but one whose loneliness and single-mindedness are mechanized and supercharged. This object explicitly demonstrates his corresponding ability to unlock, infiltrate, and destroy the lives of others.”

You can read the essay - part of Reverse Shot's symposium on objects in cinema - here