Jean-Pierre Melville - Deux hommes dans Manhattan aka Two Men in Manhattan (1959)

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Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
81 min | XviD 640x480 | 1800 kb/s | 224 kb/s AC3 | 25 fps | 1.15 GB + 3% recovery
French/English* | Subtitles: English, Spanish and Portuguese .srt | Genre: Film noir/Drama
The primary protagonists in this drama are two French journalists, Delmas (Pierre Grasset) and Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville, the director), and also the city of New York at night. The two journalists are on the trail of a story -- a French diplomat has disappeared from the U.N. for no apparent reason. As they wander through the city tracking down the reason for the disappearance, the journalists eventually discover that the diplomat has met with foul play. Now the two men have a serious disagreement. Delmas wants to take photos of what happened and use them to create sensational headlines and plenty of attention, but Moreau wants them both to cover up what they have found and bury what they know.

Melville is clearly enjoying himself in this picture. As director, there is a virtuosic flourish to many of the extended shots and the night-time cinematography. As actor, the constant smirk on his character's face is surely that of Melville himself, playing out his personal fantasy as a film noir character in his favorite city. When the story arrives, it's revealed to be an ethical dilemma: our two principals (Melville as an Agence France Presse journalist and Pierre Grasset as his photographer buddy) discover a French diplomat and ex-Resistance hero dead of a heart attack in an actress's apartment. Do they report the truth, cover it up to preserve the guy's reputation or sensationalise it even more to make a fortune from the exclusive?

Melville was by no means a great actor, but his baleful eyes, bland smile and spiffy bow tie in this film give him a kind of sleazy charm that brings to mind Peter Lorre. His character's name (Moreau) is a pun on "moraux", which means moral, and indeed he is intended to be the moral centre of the film. There are moments, though, when he seems genuinely sinister: when he peeps on a bare-breasted dancer in her dressing room, and when he looms threateningly over another girl who has just attempted suicide.

"Deux hommes..." is the most New Wave of all Melville's films. The raw, documentary-style shots, the improvised feel to some of the scenes (Melville makes frequent mistakes when speaking English), the use of real locations and untrained actors (including Melville himself), were jarring to audiences and critics at the time. In the light of Godard and Truffaut we can now better appreciate the type of film-making that Melville helped to inaugurate. Nevertheless, Melville regarded "Deux hommes..." as a failed experiment, returning in his subsequent films to a more classical approach.

DVD rip** and screenies by crasus (KG)

**Minus the trailer at the end of the movie which I've excised.

Sin ninguna razÃ³n aparente, un diplomÃ¡tico francÃ©s que trabaja en la sede de la ONU de Manhattan desaparece. Tratando de encontrar alguna pista sobre su paradero o sobre las misteriosas causas que le obligaron a abandonar la ciudad, los periodistas franceses Moreau y Delmas se trasladan a Nueva York.

A New York, un journaliste de AFP, aidÃ© d'un photographe alcoolique, est chargÃ© d'enquÃªter sur la disparition d'un diplomate franÃ§ais. Les deux hommes trouvent trois photos oÃ¹ le diplomate apparaÃ®t en compagnie de trois femmes diffÃ©rentes. Ils vont alors essayer de retrouver ces femmesâ€¦

*Attention! Il n'y a pas de sous-titres en franÃ§ais pour les dialogues en anglais.

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