Le Samourai - Daisuke Miyao (BFI Film Classics) Africa A family relies on shoplifting

A family relies on shoplifting in order to cope with a life of poverty

a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan

)| includes interview with director

” a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Le Samourai - Daisuke Miyao (BFI Film Classics) Africa A family relies on shoplifting'Le Samoura' by Daisuke Miyao (BFI Film Classics 96 page paperback) Daisuke Miyao explores Jean Pierre Melville's cult 1967 thriller, a film that unfolds in a coolly stylised Paris where the paths of a contract killer and the police commissaire pursuing him fatally intersect.