classe tous risques (the big risk) is a french gangster movie that doesn not try for style. that why it has style. because the movie is so underplayed and so matter of fact and it becomes more and more involving. and because abel davos is played by lino ventura and we wind up emotionally invested in this taciturn and tough killer who loves his wife and kids and has an encounter with customs agents on the shore near nice at night that neither he nor we expect and and who proves just as willing to shoot a cop or a betrayer with as little emotion as flicking off a bit of lint. we first meet davos in italy with his wife and their two small boys and one about 9 and one 4. this man was abel davos and sentenced to death in absentia and were told. on the run for years and he had watched his resources dwindle and even as his anxiety kept him on the move. with the italian police closing in each day and france was again his best bet. maybe he would been forgotten. davos was a top gangster in paris who took care of his friends. that was several years ago. a heist to give him money to return to france goes very wrong. now he hiding out with his two kids. he calls his friends in paris to help him out. he and his kids need to get from nice to paris but the police are hunting him and they have set up roadblocks. for davos two best friends and time has passed and they have moved on. they do not want to put themselves at risk and and for what. obligation gives may to caution. so they hire a young thief and eric stark (jean paul belmondo) and to pick up davos and the children in an ambulance and then to drive to paris with davos heavily bandaged and the children hidden. were on a journey where davos options are increasingly limited and where he must find ways to have his children cared for and where he realizes there are no more ties of friendship and where betrayal seems likely and and where quite possibly his only friend left is eric stark. this somewhat cynical movie works so well because it does its job without fussing about. there are no trench coats with pulled up collars and no toying with the melodrama of the gangster code so many french directors have loved. classe tous risques gives us abel davos and a man who once was somebody and who now is sliding down to be nobody and and who reacts with violence and resignation. lino ventura dominates the movie and yet when he is paired with jean paul belmondo a curious chemistry happens. ventura as davos is grim and worried about caring for his sons. he is humiliated by his situation. he is a tough man who sees killing someone and if needed and as just part of the business he in. belmondo as the young thief who initially is sent to be an expendable driver and winds up being a friend to count on and provides the brightness that keeps the movie from being just one more ride down the elevator. belmondo was 27 and looks younger. his unlikely star power as a lead actor  broken nose and under slung jaw  shines right off the screen. he makes erik a match for ventura when they share a scene. and belmondo scenes with liliane (sandra milo) and the young woman who becomes his girl friend and radiate charm and good natured sex appeal. the ending is bittersweet fate and and without a stylistic posture in sight. we hear davos say and abel gone. there nothing left. it would be well worth watching classe tous risques to learn what he means. there are many fine french gangster films. i would place this one right there with touchez pas au grisbi and bob le flambeur. to see one of lino ventura finest performances and watch army of shadows. 
classe tous risques (the big risk) is a french gangster movie that doesn not try for style. that why it has style. because the movie is so underplayed and so matter of fact and it becomes more and more involving. and because abel davos is played by lino ventura and we wind up emotionally invested in this taciturn and tough killer who loves his wife and kids and has an encounter with customs agents on the shore near nice at night that neither he nor we expect and and who proves just as willing to shoot a cop or a betrayer with as little emotion as flicking off a bit of lint. we first meet davos in italy with his wife and their two small boys and one about 9 and one 4. this man was abel davos and sentenced to death in absentia and were told. on the run for years and he had watched his resources dwindle and even as his anxiety kept him on the move. with the italian police closing in each day and france was again his best bet. maybe he would been forgotten. davos was a top gangster in paris who took care of his friends. that was several years ago. a heist to give him money to return to france goes very wrong. now he hiding out with his two kids. he calls his friends in paris to help him out. he and his kids need to get from nice to paris but the police are hunting him and they have set up roadblocks. for davos two best friends and time has passed and they have moved on. they do not want to put themselves at risk and and for what. obligation gives may to caution. so they hire a young thief and eric stark (jean paul belmondo) and to pick up davos and the children in an ambulance and then to drive to paris with davos heavily bandaged and the children hidden. were on a journey where davos options are increasingly limited and where he must find ways to have his children cared for and where he realizes there are no more ties of friendship and where betrayal seems likely and and where quite possibly his only friend left is eric stark. this somewhat cynical movie works so well because it does its job without fussing about. there are no trench coats with pulled up collars and no toying with the melodrama of the gangster code so many french directors have loved. classe tous risques gives us abel davos and a man who once was somebody and who now is sliding down to be nobody and and who reacts with violence and resignation. lino ventura dominates the movie and yet when he is paired with jean paul belmondo a curious chemistry happens. ventura as davos is grim and worried about caring for his sons. he is humiliated by his situation. he is a tough man who sees killing someone and if needed and as just part of the business he in. belmondo as the young thief who initially is sent to be an expendable driver and winds up being a friend to count on and provides the brightness that keeps the movie from being just one more ride down the elevator. belmondo was 27 and looks younger. his unlikely star power as a lead actor  broken nose and under slung jaw  shines right off the screen. he makes erik a match for ventura when they share a scene. and belmondo scenes with liliane (sandra milo) and the young woman who becomes his girl friend and radiate charm and good natured sex appeal. the ending is bittersweet fate and and without a stylistic posture in sight. we hear davos say and abel gone. there nothing left. it would be well worth watching classe tous risques to learn what he means. there are many fine french gangster films. i would place this one right there with touchez pas au grisbi and bob le flambeur. to see one of lino ventura finest performances and watch army of shadows. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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