Possibly the best of the Carné-Prévert films, certainly their collaboration at its most classically pure.
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06/24/06
Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:7
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.2/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A tough romantic has his love brutalized by the world and, after committing a crime of passion, barricades himself inside his apartment.
Reviews for Le Jour Se Leve
1 - 9 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticThis is the best of the fatalistic dramas scripted by Prévert and directed by Carné, a doom-laden romance, heavier on atmosphere than tension, and made memorable by the performances.
05/24/03
Top CriticSet convincingly on the streets and in the tenements, every frame here feels lived in.
07/19/09
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03/26/09
Top CriticA superb example of French poetic realism.
01/09/08
Top CriticWhat brings this film into greatness is the absolutely pitch-perfect lucid performance by Gabin.
03/24/07
The pity of it all seems slightly forced, the melodramatics too obvious.
03/25/06
Top CriticNo review available.
06/30/05
The screenplay is by Jacques Prevert, the most accomplished dialogist of the period, and the famous sets, with their overtones of German expressionism, are by Alexander Trauner.
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