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The Fighter
Le Battant
1983 121 min France 16+
★6.9
Crime, Drama
Director: Alain Delon, Robin Davis
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Description
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Starring
Alain Delon
Actor
Anne Parillaud
Actor
François Périer
Actor
Key opinion
Le Battant is viewed as a technically ambitious but narratively uneven crime thriller that serves as a self-referential retrospective of Alain Delon’s career. While fans praise its stylistic homages to French noir classics, critics find the fragmented direction and inconsistent tone to be significant flaws.
| Direction | The film functions as an effective, self-aware homage to the French police-thriller tradition, heavily influenced by mentors like Melville and Clément. | |
| Acting | The protagonist's characterization is highly divisive; some see his cold resilience and fatalism as quintessentially Delon, while others find the character emotionally blank and lacking in intrigue. | |
| Screenplay | The script strikes a balance between hard-boiled genre tropes and clever, self-referential irony, though its reliance on predictable twists keeps it from becoming a masterpiece. | |
| Score | The musical score is a point of contention, with some viewers appreciating the thematic link to Delon's past works while others find its repetitive use purposeless and distracting. |