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)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 6 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis: A tough romantic has his love brutalized by the world and, after committing a crime of passion, barricades himself inside his apartment. [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Jean Gabin, Arletty
Director: Marcel Carne
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This 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
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What 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
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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.
01/01/00
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