Le Samourai (1967)

In a world of strangers, what distinguishes friends (still strangers) from enemies is loyalty. The world is populated by strangers when one is reluctant to invest in ties with it, thereby avoiding the risk of being sentimental during the departure, especially if the departure is likely to be soon. As for loyalty, it brings a little order, a little intimacy into an otherwise foreign world. Just as a well-tailored suit does.

The film exudes the chill of emptiness, the emptiness that modern French films usually fill with the (secular) humanism.