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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 ...
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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.
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.
Jan 31, 2013 · It’s “Port of Shadows,” one of the treasures of French cinema now newly restored to its original glory. Released in France in 1938 as “Le Quai des Brumes,” this was an early film by director...
May 5, 2012 · Port of Shadows Review: A Classic Film Noir for the Ages. Carné’s thrilling film is an important and undervalued influence on the post-war American noirs of the 1940s.
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.
Sep 4, 2019 · Port of Shadows, beyond being an exceptional film, is a landmark of poetic realism, and one of the films that is often cited as a thematic precursor of film noir. That’s not surprising given its downbeat take on life and fate, amidst the foggy shadows at the ports and dives of Le Havre.
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.
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.
