Look! It's French New Wave! You can tell by the naked ladies and the gritty subject.
Widely thought to be one of the greatest heist films of all time, it should be considered to be one of the greatest character studies of a heist-er. After all, the heist doesn't come in until half-way through, so this is more an exploration of place, of Paris, than of the Casino job they set themselves to.
More interesting to me was the remake with Nick Nolte where Bob is a junkie instead of just being down-on-his luck. Still, I can appreciate this for its time and place, but as a heist film in-of-itself it fails to deliver.
Bob did have very nice platinum hair, though. Very shiny.
Where we saw it: DVD | We deign to rate it: 65 outta 100