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- In high hopes of wiping the slate clean, Jean, a taciturn deserter from the French Colonial Army, ends up in the fog-covered port city of Le Havre. Like a fish out of water, Jean holes himself up in a remote bar at the far edge of the harbour, until he finds a new set of clothes and a new identity to catch the next ship to Venezuela.
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Port of Shadows is the eleventh novel in the Black Company series. Published in 2018, it hit the shelves 18 years after the release of the previous novel, Soldiers Live . It is an interquel which chronologically takes place during the six-year gap between the first two Books of the North : The Black Company and Shadows Linger (both published in ...
Summaries. A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city. Life's a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. He lucks into civilian clothes, a little bit of money, a passport, and a dog, and he also meets Nelly, a 17-year-old who's grown up ...
Sep 13, 2012 · Jean (Jean Gabin) is an AWOL soldier seeking refuge in the city of Le Havre, where he meets Nelly (Michèle Morgan), an unspeakably stunning 17-year-old girl who’s surrounded by men involved in various shady businesses: false passports, murder, dismemberment, and the like.
Port of Shadows: Directed by Marcel Carné. With Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur. A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
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Jan 24, 2013 · Praised as one of Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert’s greatest achievements and a highlight of French poetic realism, “Port of Shadows” is a noirish exploration of the ambiguous zone between past and future, life and death, and the impossibility of escaping the past, al quintessential themes of film noir as a distinct genre.
Jan 13, 2020 · Port of Shadows. Kino Lorber, 91 min., in French w/English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: $29.99. by Sean Axmaker. January 13, 2020. 12:00 AM. Port of Shadows. Rating: 3.5 of 5. Jean Gabin literally steps out of the darkness in the opening scene of Marcel Carné’s 1938 classic of French cinema.
Jan 31, 2013 · Jan. 31, 2013 12 AM PT. It was the only French film of the 1930s, Simone de Beauvoir reported, that she and Jean-Paul Sartre jointly admired, largely for “the fog of despair enveloping the entire...
