MFAH Film Restorations & Revivals: Rififi
- When
- May 26, 2016
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $1001
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Restorations & Revivals film series. Enjoy these classics from world cinema on the big screen in Brown Auditorium Theater!
Rififi
Directed by Jules Dassin
1955, in French with English subtitles
France
B/W
122 minutes
DCP
After making such American noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris to film what the Los Angeles Times called “one of the great crime thrillers, the benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against.”
A gang of master thieves concocts an almost impossible plan to rob a jewelry store on the Rue de Rivoli. Even though the wordless 30-minute robbery scene is delightfully low-tech, it provides white-knuckle suspense.
“The underworld equivalent of a sublime French meal, but as Rififi goes on, it becomes as savage as Reservoir Dogs, The Killing, or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow.” —Entertainment Weekly
