The Good Thief

Loosely based on Jean-Pierre Melville's French film noir Bob le Flambeur, this heist film from director Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, an aging American thief living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the ...more

Neil Jordan's The Good Thief is less a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur than an extended riff on its premise. It's a film rich in atmosphere and texture, with Jordan's camera constantly prowling the seedy underbelly of Nice where a rogues' gallery of underworld characters from places as far flung as Morocco, Russia, and America all congregate. Unlike the dapper hero of Melville's film, Nick Nolte's Bob, with his gravelly voice and sagging, wrinkled features, is an elegantly ...more