Port of Shadows [Le Quai des brumes]

N.p. N.p., Circa 1938. Vintage oversize portrait photograph from the 1938 French film, showing actors Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan.

In his essay for the Criterion Collection release of the film, critic Lucy (formerly Luc) Sante calls the film the "definitive example of the style known as 'poetic realism.' The ragged outlines, the lowdown settings, the romantic fatalism of the protagonists, the movement of the story first upward toward a single moment of happiness and then down to inexorable doom - the hallmarks of the style had germinated in some form or other through the decade, but in Marcel Carne's third feature they came together as archetypes." Winner of the 1939 Prix Louis Delluc.

9 x 11.25 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 245. Grant France. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.

[Book #167754]