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Bookmark this pagePorte des Lilas (1957)
Director: René Clair
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From Time Out Film Guide
An alcoholic stumblebum (Brasseur) befriends a dashing but amoral young hoodlum (Vidal) with predictably sombre results. The absolute last gasp of French poetic realism, engulfed only two years later by the tidal New Wave, whose airy location shooting made Clair's suffocating studio-bound 'realism' hard to differentiate from the so-called 'poetry'. Of interest, though, as the sole venture into film of the bardic guitarist Brassens.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: René Clair
Producer: Jacques Plante
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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