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Bookmark this pageRemorques (1941)
Director: Jean Grémillon
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From Time Out Film Guide
A number of cross-references apply: Reed's The Key, likewise a melancholy tale of doomed love set against a background of rough seas and salvage vessels; Le Quai des Brumes, the two stars' initial pairing, Gabin here reprising his blend of the tender and the explosive, and Morgan again entering the movie trailing clouds of sadness behind her; and Fassbinder's Querelle - though this one's set in the real Brest, grey and wind-lashed, but still, cinematically, one of the capital cities of desolation. Remorques was begun in summer '39, shut down when war was declared and finished during the Occupation. Sometimes, as when Morgan contemplates the dead starfish which Gabin has given her, it feels precisely like the last European movie of the 1930s.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Jean Grémillon
Cast: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Madeleine Renaud, Fernand Ledoux, Charles Blavette, Jean Dasté full cast
Duration: 85 mins
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