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
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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 CriticFor 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
It captures the underbelly of post-World War II Paris in the most glorious black and white you've ever seen.
02/27/03
A beautifully-made and beautifully-written film about people stuck in a place that won't let them lead anything but a crummy, second-rate life. Classical French cinema at its very best.
10/12/08
Terrifically entertaining.
04/18/03
This is a film well worth reviving, admiring and applauding.
05/29/03
The ignoble suspicions of Le Corbeau still churn under the razzmatazz surface
09/25/09
It's a movie that Lautrec would have loved to paint.
01/31/03
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
Fabulously entertaining.
02/14/03
A riveting noir-ish mystery that is unforgettable in just about every way.
02/14/04
one of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s greatest films, an influential thriller that is also a great character study.
07/27/03
An excellent film noir.
02/14/03
One of the most satisfying French crime films of its era.
05/09/03
Much of it is well-made and entertaining.
02/01/03
For those with a taste for classic movies, it's like finding a buried treasure.
02/28/03
A thing of beauty, perhaps, to be savored by film enthusiasts and analyzed by film scholars.
10/29/02
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
One of the great film noirs. It reaches the heart.
08/25/03
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