Port of Shadows (1938)
- Original title
- Le quai des brumes
- Directed by
- Marcel Carné
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, romance film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 312 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A deserter arrives in a foggy port town and falls for a young woman trapped by her circumstances. He gets entangled with local criminals and faces a doomed romance.
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What happens
Port of Shadows (French: Le Quai des brumes [lə kɛ de bʁym], "The dock of mists") is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné. An example of poetic realism, it stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert and based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. The music score was by Maurice Jaubert. The film was the 1939 winner of France's top cinematic prize, the Prix Louis-Delluc. According to Charles O'Brien, the film is one of the earliest to be called film noir by critics (1939, France). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Rebel (1938)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.