Le Voyou

Le Voyou
Directed by	Claude Lelouch
Written by	Claude Lelouch Claude Pinoteau Pierre Uytterhoeven
Produced by	Georges Dancigers Alexandre Mnouchkine
Starring	Jean-Louis Trintignant Danièle Delorme
Cinematography	Claude Lelouch
Edited by	Marie-Claude Lacambre
Music by	Francis Lai
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	November 20, 1970
Running time	120 minutes
Country	France / Italy
Language	French

Le Voyou, also known as The Crook, is a highly stylized French action movie about a criminal, known as "Simon the Swiss", and his largest heist. Directed by Claude Lelouch in 1970, and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, the movie makes use of a circular narrative and dialogue littered with conflicting statements by several of the characters. Other cinematic techniques, including flashbacks, musical montage, a mixture of film editing styles, misaligned sound mixing, and a movie within the movie, all work together to convey the elusive nature of the title character, and to heighten the mood of the chase.

The film won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Direction in 1971.

Cast

• Jean-Louis Trintignant as Simon Duroc AKA "The Swiss"
• Danièle Delorme as Janine
• Charles Gérard as Charlot
• Christine Lelouch as Martine
• Charles Denner as Monsieur Gallois
• Amidou as Bill

External links

• Le Voyou at IMDb