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Le Jour Se Lève

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Le Jour Se Lève
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NR,1hr 25min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1939
Director:
Marcel Carné
Distributor:
Vauban Productions
Starring:
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty  ...more
Synopsis: Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert's classic of French poetic realism stars Jean Gabin in one of his most famous roles as Francois, a rough, barrel-chested loner who hides out in his apartment awaiting for the police to arrive. Francois has killed a man in a crime of passion, the slimy lothario Valentin (Jules Berry). As he listens in the darkness of his Normandy apartment to the police sirens closing in and getting louder, he recalls the two women that he loved -- Francoise (Jacqueline Laurent) and ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
An exemplar of French poetic realism, Marcel Carné's Le jour se lève (1939) turns a murder story into an evocative examination of a man trapped by circumstances beyond his control. In the script by Carné's main collaborator Jacques Prévert, Jean Gabin's working-class François shoots a man and holes up in his room, thinking back, in an impeccably structured flashback, to the events that brought him ... Full Review
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Jean Gabin
Francois
Jules Berry
M. Valentin
Arletty
Clara
Jacqueline Laurent
Francoise
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