Réservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino
Joe Cabot and his son Eddie hire a group of six criminals to carry out a diamond robbery. Despite all the precautions, the police is already in position on the day and the heist turns into a massacre. The gang's survivors assemble at their appointed meeting place to settle their accounts, and they all think that there is an informant in their midst.
With : Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Quentin Tarantino, Edward Bunker
Screenplay : Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
Image : Andzej Sekula
Editing : Sally Menke
Decors : Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
Screenplay : Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
Image : Andzej Sekula
Editing : Sally Menke
Decors : Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
Production : Live Entertainement, Dod Eat Dogs Productions
Distribution: Metropolitan Filmexport
Distribution: Metropolitan Filmexport
"With Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino seems to have focused on the most immediate details of Melville's cinema, mainly the black suit, the iconic gangster uniform. Tarantino must have remembered the wonderful shot on the motorway, filmed by Melville in full daylight in Le Deuxième Souffle (The Second Breath): in that shot the four accomplices walk side-by-side towards the armoured van" (N. Saada). But the first Melvillian influence on Reservoir Dogs is, according to Tarantino, Le Doulos (The Finger Man): "It's always been my favourite script. I was fascinated by the way that, even if you can't really understand what is going on for the first hour, you are caught up emotionally in the action. You can't imagine that the mystery will be tied up as well as that" (Q. Tarantino).