Le Cercle Rouge carries a "Buddhist" epigraph, presumably of Melville's own invention, basically stating that people who are meant to meet will do so "in the red circle" no matter what crazy routes they take to it. To illustrate his own aphorism (we are told). Buddha took a piece of red chalk and drew a circle. In the movie proper, Corey is the only one we see wielding red chalk and tracing a circle - on the tip of his cue in a billiard hall. The men in this film make their own fates. True, the red circle refers to their common, bloody destiny. But it also conjures a bullet through the heart.
Le Cercle Rouge - Great Blasphemies
Michael Sragow
Criterion.com
2011
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Alain Delon in Le Cercle Rouge
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