Jean Gabin, Jenny Burnay, Marcel Peres

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Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Marcel Carn?, Marcel Carné

Release Date: October 29, 1939

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DVD Release Date: July 20, 2004

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  • January 8, 2008
    beautiful film. wonderful atmosphere. heartbreaking ending. jean gabin is the french bogart. and french gangsters are funny! except when they're not
  • October 31, 2007
    a lyrically pastoral story about the marginalized vagabonds at some harbor village in france antecedent to WWI....sublimely anchored by the vicissitudinary theme melody and its grandeur misty impressionist photography which is the best phenomenal success in this film....french cl...( read more)assic actor jean gabin(he's sorta like james steward in america) plays jean, a defected soldier with chivalric bravado rescuing the smolderingly fair nelly from her crabbed gangster suitor and also her incestously morbid guardian. from time to time, they shelter in some shabby cabinet retreat by the shore that is a former tavern in care of ex-cons, street bums or the morally mistrayed painter, in brief, the deserted loners...one of the most memorable subplots for the minor roles would be the suicidal painter who visionalizes death and decay in his works as well as the charismatic dog which chases after jean gabin royally. the foggy scenery foreshadows the tragic undertone in movie, predicting the disastrous heart-ache for the doomed love. the idealistically sad closure might be a bit too corny for certain audience. and jean gabin's knightly behaviors might be a bit too well-schemed for the niche of his masculine decency. but still gabin is one of the archetyped tough guy in the early french b&w cinema. "port of shadows" is the fable-like noirish tale paved with cozy hues in the canvas of realist romanticism to vent the sentiments of ephemeral love.
  • October 29, 2009
    Un monument du cinéma français, et c'est assez facile de deviner pourquoi. L'histoire est simple, mais les personnages sont convaincants et ils ont de la gueule, particulièrement celui de Jean Gabin à qui on ne la fait pas. Le style de Carné a quelque chose d'onirique même dans s...( read more)on réalisme. Un film d'une grande beauté, avec des dialogues savoureux et des acteurs légendaires. Vraiment, c'est pas mal près de la perfection.
  • August 25, 2009
    À voir pour les dialogues de Prévert, pour Michel Simon, pour un Pierre Brasseur plus cabotin que jamais, pour les yeux de Michel Morgan...
    J'ai oublié personne??
  • April 16, 2009
    Beautiful atmosphere. Engaging lost souls. A loathsome, unsettling Michel Simon. I want the dog! Too bad these movies can never end happy.
  • April 5, 2009
    Quart Vittel: That's life.
  • August 4, 2008
    one hell of a dark and gloomy picture. so excellent.
  • July 3, 2008
    want to see this because it won best foreign film with the NBR
  • June 28, 2008
    A delightful film on love about unsympathetic characters that have all done wrong and sometimes, wrong you can never understand. I really love Carne's way of handling love and melodrama, it never feels like one and always have this habit of poking us to feel more, like in here, w...( read more)here I somehow feel that this film tries to capture the dissonance of modern society, to be greedy and to be zealous and to be self-destructive one day. Trauner's set design was wonderful, one of my favourites in that area
  • February 16, 2008
    A very well done gloomy piece of cinematic goodness with interesting characters.

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