...And Hope to Die

1972 [FRENCH]

Crime / Drama

2
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 973 973

french noir

Plot summary

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Director

René Clément Photo
René Clément

Top cast

Emmanuelle Béart Photo
Emmanuelle Béart as Child
Robert Ryan Photo
Robert Ryan as Charley Ellis
Nicole Desailly Photo
Nicole Desailly as Nurse
Daniel Breton Photo
Daniel Breton as Paul
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.27 GB
1210*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 21 min
Seeds 3
2.35 GB
1808*1076
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 21 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jgcorrea 6 / 10

Cross your fingers...

Suitable hardboiled style to tell a gripping noir. Somewhat memorable, dramatic and exciting. A man on the run gets involved with a gang near Philadelphia and has to use his wits to survive. This is a very bleak story, but it rings true. Clement doesn't let any light shine into this dark tale at all. There isn't a lot of action, the crux of the story are the interactions between the four men and two women holed up in Germantown, PA. Each of them may start with a stereotype, but the movie breathes life into them, and even the least sympathetic character (it would really be hard to pick ONE) has a human side that disarms our preconceptions. The darkness of it doesn't bother me. I enjoy it for its truth.
Reviewed by athanasiosze 6 / 10

6.5/10. Borderline recommendable.

It's not very good. I expected a surrealistic, bizarre movie based on the reviews i read here. Instead, i saw a drama movie with some laughable action scenes, more weird than surrealistic. Almost the whole movie is about Trintignant's interaction with the rest of the gang. I saw similarities with Paolini's Theorema, for some reason, this character enticed most of the gang. And this was unrealistic as hell, because he had zero seductive qualities, he was not even good with words.But the worst part was his background. Absolutely ridiculous.Yet, i gave it a somewhat high rating. It was interesting all the way until the ending. Whereas it didn't make much sense, i was kinda invested. Actors did a good job giving depth to those characters, and the whole interaction between them, was enjoyable to watch. Action scenes were laughabla but still, i was curious to see where it goes, and they were intense.This is an enjoyable movie. Running time was about 140 minutes, not 99 minutes as it says here. Maybe i saw another longer version of this. In any case, this is definitely not a movie which every fan of this genre should watch, but if you lower your expectations, you'll probably enjoy it: Being a fan of French cinema, helps a lot.
Reviewed by searchanddestroy-1 8 / 10

French melancholia crime

I have always loved this movie, since the first time I saw it, during the late seventies. First because of the story and characters, and of course thanks of the Francis Lai's superb score, so sad, so melancholic, in the perfect mood of the story. The tale of characters facing their fate, their doom, fighting in a struggle lost in advance. I am not surprised that 90% of audiences don't like this feature, even the old timers like me. I don't even speak of modern audiences. I can't explain the link between the kid's sequences, in the beginning and the very end, and the adult's ones. Is the young kid Jean Louis Trintignant's character when he was a child? Robert Ryan, at his ever peak, one year before his death. yes, I love this film.
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