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Port of Shadows ( French: Le Quai des brumes [lə kɛ de bʁym], "The dock of mists") is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné. An example of poetic realism, it stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. [2] . The music score was by Maurice Jaubert.
Jean (Jean Gabin) is an army deserter who arrives in Le Havre, France, planning to leave the country on one of the many ships anchored there. He gets distracted in the foggy port city, however ...
Port of Shadows. Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
Jul 19, 2004 · Trauner apprenticed with Lazar Meerson, who constructed similar dreamlike streetscapes for the films of René Clair and Jacques Feyder. Port of Shadows possesses nearly all the qualities that were once synonymous with the idea of French cinema.
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.
Jan 13, 2020 · Gabin is Jean, an AWOL soldier who takes refuge in a bar on the outskirts of a small port town engulfed in mist—a place haunted by lost souls—and falls in love with sad runaway Nelly (Michèle Morgan).
Carné conjures port city Le Havre as a dreamy, self-contained island of fate where fog rolls by and windows glow at night, the plaintive horns of ships constantly reminding us of all the possibilities lost. By Michael Bayer.
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
Banned by the French army in 1939 for being “immoral and detrimental to young people,” this fog-ridden proto-noir is a masterpiece of poetic realism. Le Havre is the port inked in shadows, fertile ground for dog-eat-dog betrayals, tough hoodlums, and—in Michèle Morgan’s Nelly—even tougher dames.
Port of Shadows is a film directed by Marcel Carné with Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur .... Year: 1938. Original title: Le Quai des Brumes. Synopsis: Life's a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country.
