Le Jour se lève
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Time Out says
Possibly the best of the Carné-Prévert films, certainly their collaboration at its most classically pure, with Gabin a dead man from the outset as his honest foundry worker, hounded into jealousy and murder by a cynical seducer, holes up with a gun in an attic surrounded by police, remembering in flashback how it all started while he waits for the end. Fritz Lang might have given ineluctable fate a sharper edge (less poetry, more doom), but he couldn't have bettered the performances from Gabin, Berry, Arletty, and (as the subject of Gabin's romantic agony) Laurent. Remade in Hollywood as The Long Night in 1947.Author: TM
Release details
UK release:
1939
Duration:
87 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Arletty, René Génin, Jean Gabin, Mady Berry, Jules Berry, Bernard Blier, Jacqueline Laurent
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Screenwriter:
Music:
Cinematography:
Curt Courant, André Bac, Philippe Agostini
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