Yeah, alright it isnt Resevoir Dogs. Or Inception. So get over yourselves because Rififi is straight dopamine. This film is living proof that the set-up is key; that the feedline is just as important as the punch line. Made by Jules Dassin whilst he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, the movie rigorously displays the sensitivity of the alarm system to any level of noise or pressure. What follows is around a thirty minute heist scene, played in full and shot in what is essentially silence. No cool music, no talking and barely any sounds from the characters movements as you become hypervigilant to even the faintest of faint noises. The only thing that is more clenched than the on screen silence is your butthole. It's a movie about the code of being thief and what happens when you break the unwritten lines. Rififi won at Cannes when it was the height of French chic and if anything about this movie feels like a cliché, its because it pretty much created them. Feel free to tell me why Im wrong and an idiot for not putting Tarantino or Nolan on the list in the comments below. Lets try and keep it all above the belt though please.
