S4E27: Bob le Flambeur

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In this precursor to the French New Wave, an old Gambler in 50s France gets mixed up in a scheme to heist 800 Million Francs from a casino. ----- Friend of the show Bella, a refugee evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021, is raising money for her gender confirmation surgery! Anything you can give would be hugely appreciated! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/team-bella ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can. -Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 -Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patcheshttps://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the every app account

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond.
0:19.7	I am November Kelly.
0:24.1	I am joined as always by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon.
0:24.5	Bonjour!
0:26.7	Hello, salo.
0:28.0	Saloo.
0:29.1	Bonjour to Le Bond.
0:31.0	It's another French episode.
0:39.8	You get to hear our French inflicted on you again because as part of robbery season, I thought I'd go back to 1956.
0:47.8	And a really early, a movie that prefigures a lot of the French new wave and a movie that imitates a lot of kind of American gangster movies and heist movies and tries to like
0:52.3	bring them into Europe and into France.
0:55.0	And the film is Bob Le Flombert.
0:57.0	Yeah, there's some fun DNA of future heist movies in this one, which I quite like.
1:01.0	Absolutely.
1:02.0	I mean, in itself, it's not a bad movie, certainly, but it looks its age in a lot of ways.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:09.0	So just the heroine. Yeah. So just the heroin. Yeah.
1:11.6	We'll get to that.
1:12.6	I mean, this was also some adverse conditions movie club in the sense that I had to
1:19.6	look around a fair bit to find a print of this that was more than 144 of God's own pixels.
1:26.6	And even then, it was, it's a struggle, but even stuff. more than 144 of God's own pixels.
1:27.5	And even then, it was, it's a struggle, but...
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