CLASSE TOUS RISQUES (CRITERION)

The BIG Crime! The BIG Chase!

After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children, despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a throat-grabbing, soul-searching journey through the postwar Parisian underworld. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet is a highlight of 1960s French cinema.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• Excerpts from Claude Sautet, ou La magie invisible, a 2003 documentary on the director by N. T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin
• Interview with Classe tous risques novelist and coscreenwriter José Giovanni
• Archival interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career<
• Trailers
• PLUS: Essays by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville