The Good Thief
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| The Good Thief | |
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| Directed by | Neil Jordan |
| Produced by | Seaton McLean John Wells Stephen Woolley |
| Written by | Neil Jordan based on screenplay by Auguste Le Breton & Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Starring | Nick Nolte |
| Music by | Elliot Goldenthal |
| Cinematography | Chris Menges |
| Release date(s) | September 6, 2002 (Toronto Film Festival) |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25,000,000 (estimated) |
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The Good Thief is a 2002 film starring Nutsa Kukhianidze and Nick Nolte, Directed by Neil Jordan. The film is a remake of a famous 1955 French film Bob le flambeur, by Jean-Pierre Melville.
The film follows a heroin addict/retired thief through the set-up and completion of one last job.
Filmed in both Monaco and Nice, France.
[edit] Reaction
The film received mostly positive reviews. Critic Roger Ebert notes of Nolte: "it is clear that he was born to play Bob. It is one of those performances that flows unhindered from an actor's deepest instincts." [1]
Reviewer Pam Grady, writing for Reel.com, also praised the film: "The Good Thief has many virtues, beginning with the sheer wit of Jordan's screenplay and Chris Menges's neon-saturated cinematography that renders Nice both beautiful and sinister, trapping the characters in the glare of its lights. The heist itself is a complicated affair—Jordan took Melville's original idea and added a distinctly 21st-century twist—and all the more satisfying for it." [2]
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