Of all the memorable films starring French icon Jean Gabin, including “Grand Illusion,” “Pepe le Moko” and “La Bete Humaine,” none has been harder to see in its original version, or more richly ...
Cinestudio in Hartford will be showing a classic of 1930s French poetic realism, a movie that escaped unscathed from two very powerful enemies. “Le Jour se Leve” stars Jean Gabin as a criminal who ...
Classic French cinema is nothing new to the long running distribution company StudioCanal, Having previously released a collection of Jean-Pierre Melville’s films, and the complete works of Jacques ...
A kind of Scorsese-De Niro-Schrader of French ‘30s cinema, director Marcel Carné, actor Jean Gabin and screenwriter Jacques Prevert followed the classic Quai Des Brumes with the equally brilliant Le ...
The film opens with a caption, one imposed by anxious producers, fearing that audiences would be baffled. It is a caption that sets up the concept of flashback: a man has taken a life; now he is ...
Noble foundry worker François (Jean Gabin) shoots and kills weirdo circus dog-trainer Valentin (Jules Berry) and barricades himself in the attic. Armed police swarm up the stairs. Dissolving ...
Le jour se lève 1939 1 hr 33 mins Drama NR Watchlist After killing a man in a crime of passion, a loner hides out in his Normandy apartment waiting for the police to arrive, and he reflects on the two ...
Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and ...
When Le Jour Se Lève was released, however, the Vichy government's censors forced Carné to modify certain scenes and remove the names of Courant and Trauner from the opening credits as they were known ...