Con-men brothers meet their match in a mysterious woman who is followed by a cadre of destructive body guards; mixing visual tropes from the French New Wave with contemporary conventions of the heist film, the movie twists and turns toward a conventional and satisfying conclusion. The music and cinematography are delightful, and in many ways the film is just off-beat enough to win the weary-of-cliche' viewer -- but the character-weakness in one particular character (I don't want to spoil, here) annoyed me to the point of being bumped out of about 15 minutes of the film...
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