Rififi: The Half-Hour Heist Told in Silence

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000

For roughly half an hour in the middle of Rififi, nobody speaks. No music plays. Four men break into a jeweller’s on the Rue de Rivoli, and Jules Dassin films their labour in near-total silence — the scrape of a chisel, the muffled tap of a hammer wrapped in cloth, a drill biting concrete, the tiny clink of a tool set down. It is the most famous sequence in the entire heist genre, and it remains, seventy years on, the standard against which every screen robbery is measured. Directors still study it frame by frame. Almost none of them dare copy the silence.

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Rififi: The Half-Hour Heist Told in Silence