A superior noirish thriller which gets right under the skin of the seedy world it inhabits.
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04/27/09
Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:30
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: Henri-Georges Clouzot's engrossing noir explores the troubles of post-war France and the line dividing social struggle and criminality.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair) is a singer who is prepared to become a sensation. However, she doesn't do it in the field of music. Instead she is embroiled in this tale of intrigue which involves her... [More]
Reviews for Quai des Orfèvres
Top CriticJouvet's Maigret-esque cop gets all the best lines, and gives the film its human, tragic focus.
06/24/06
Top CriticWhile the story is thin, Clouzot uses his immense skills to raise the picture above the standard for the genre.
08/29/06
Top CriticReleased in America as Jenny Lamour, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s story of ambition, murder, mystery and cover-up -- and their all-too-human foundations -- holds up remarkably well.
01/20/03
A splendid find -- part policier and part marital comedy, replete with that winking, twisting sexuality that the French have always done so well.
12/12/02
An elegant show-biz noir that weaves an intricate web of deception and intrigue.
04/17/03
This is a film well worth reviving, admiring and applauding.
05/29/03
A riveting noir-ish mystery that is unforgettable in just about every way.
02/14/04
It's a movie that Lautrec would have loved to paint.
01/31/03
One of the great film noirs. It reaches the heart.
08/25/03
A noirish, backstage whodunit that throws together a sweet-hearted floozy, the jealous husband from hell and a detective who just might be the funniest Gallic grouch in the history of the movies.
02/07/03
While Delair is lively and appealing, Charles Dullin is magnificently creepy as the murder victim.
10/22/02
No review available.
07/03/05
The ignoble suspicions of Le Corbeau still churn under the razzmatazz surface
09/25/09
one of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s greatest films, an influential thriller that is also a great character study.
07/27/03
Much of it is well-made and entertaining.
02/01/03
For once, the character flaws are genuine human foibles instead of a screenwriter's idea of easily solved psychoses. These twitchy characters are pleasingly three-dimensional.
02/27/03
Clouzot is able to reveal a complex and interactive working-class world in which cops and criminals are sometimes difficult to tell apart.
04/20/09
Filmmaker Clouzot, who won best director at Venice for this film, is incapable of making anyone or any situation standard, and that's a gift not even half a century on the shelf can tarnish.
01/16/03
Top CriticA movie whose top-notch acting, rich decor and pungent atmosphere will delight any devotee of classic French cinema -- and whose taut plot will satisfy mystery and suspense buffs as well.
12/27/02
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