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What's your favorite film by Marcel Carné?

Drôle de drame
1 (5.6%)
Port of Shadows
2 (11.1%)
Hôtel du Nord
0 (0%)
Le jour se lève (Daybreak)
1 (5.6%)
Les visiteurs du soir (The Devil's Envoys)
0 (0%)
Children of Paradise
4 (22.2%)
Les portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night)
0 (0%)
Thérèse Raquin
0 (0%)
L'air de Paris
0 (0%)
Les tricheurs (Youthful Sinners)
0 (0%)
other
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
8 (44.4%)
don't like any
2 (11.1%)

Total Members Voted: 17

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Re: Carné, Marcel
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2019, 11:00:53 PM »
Hotel du Nord (1938)
★ ★ ½
Starts decent enough with a pair of lovers in a suicide pact. That crosses up with a criminal in hiding and his girl. As it went on I tried to figure out why I was so bored. My first thought was the well-lit but unimpressive compositions, but I think the problem is the characters behaviors sound natural but are completely unreasonable. For example, the couple is planning to kill themselves as a romantic gesture. It's poetic but senseless. The gangster and his girl are like many of cinemas gangsters and their women and they behave uninterestingly within that framework. Very natural but they don't do anything surprising. It's a film noir script with Richard Linklater's conversational direction.


I was planning to watch Children of Paradise again, and I might've made it past the first hour if this film hadn't taken the wind from my sails.

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Re: Carné, Marcel
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2019, 03:10:23 PM »
Children of Paradise
Port of Shadows
Le Jour se Lève
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Re: Carné, Marcel
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2019, 03:07:50 AM »
Les assassins de l'ordre, 20°

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