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french films > Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows)
Quai des Brumes
Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows)
cast: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur
year: 1938
colour: no
certificate:
director: Marcel Carne
runtime: 91
In the shadowy port of Le Havre, Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter on the run, takes shelter in Panama’s bar, an isolated shack on the water’s edge. In this hideout of drifters and down-and-outs, Jean encounters world-weary artist Michel Krauss (Robert Le Vigan) who discourses on life, suicide and the hidden meanings of art. Then in walks Nelly (Michèle Morgan) - exuding mysterious allure in her transparent raincoat and beret (costumes by Coco Chanel). For Jean it’s love at first sight: ‘It’s like in the movies,’ he says, ‘I see you and I like you.’ Nelly too is smitten but she also has to deal with the perverted jealousy of her guardian (Michel Simon) and the lecherous attentions of Lucien (Pierre Brasseur), a petty gangster who is investigating the disappearance of one of his gang-members, Nelly’s former lover.
The first of Carné’s collaborations with poet-scriptwriter Jacques Prévert, Le Quai des brumes is also graced by the expressionistic photography of Eugen Schüfftan, the ingenious set designs of Alexandre Trauner and Maurice Jaubert’s romantic, doom-laden score. The 34-year-old Jean Gabin was already the most bankable star in French cinema, while Michèle Morgan, just seventeen, was instantly hailed as the new Garbo. Their incendiary romantic pairing – combining wistful tenderness with a remarkably frank eroticism – has since been compared with that of Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca.
Unsurprisingly - given the vicissitudes of political censorship – Le Quai des brumes has come down to us in various versions and with the original negative incomplete. For this new restoration by STUDIOCANAL and the Cinémathèque française, the original negative was cleaned, scanned in 2K and completed with footage from other sources to create a version that corresponds as closely as possible to the filmmakers’ intentions. Released in UK cinemas on 4 May, this new restoration of Le Quai des brumes will enable filmgoers to relish in full the beauty of its richly imagined world.
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