I seem to recall that Mamet’s “Heist” was sort of “meta.”
I like the genre.Not all films make the most of the stock elements, but there are some outstanding films in the genre. Shame that so few of the films pass the Bechdel test, but that’s because the filmmakers aren’t trying hard enough.
I thought Le Cercle Rouge was a great film, but the deformable bullet gimmick didn’t grab me like the umbrella in Rififi.
