https://vo.rs/tags/alain-delon/Latest from the Alain Delon desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/le-cercle-rouge-melvilles-perfect-fatalist-heist/<p><em>Le Cercle Rouge</em> opens with an epigraph Jean-Pierre Melville attributes to the Buddha: that when men are destined to meet, whatever paths they take, they will inevitably come together in the red circle. It is a lovely, resonant piece of Eastern fatalism, and Melville made it up. He invented the quotation, the attribution, the whole framing device, because he needed a philosophy to hang his 1970 crime film on and none existed that said exactly what he meant. That act of forgery tells you everything about the film that follows. <em>Le Cercle Rouge</em> is a machine built to demonstrate a worldview, and the worldview is that these men were doomed before the first frame.</p>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000