Le Jour Se Lève (1939)
- Original title
- Le jour se lève
- Directed by
- Marcel Carné
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, romance film, flashback film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 255 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 man is trapped in a room after committing a crime. As he waits for the police, he remembers the events that led him there, including a love affair and a confrontation.
atmosphericbroodingnostalgicconfinedmelancholicsomberquietly tense
What happens
Le jour se lève ([lə ʒuʁ sə lɛv], "The day rises"; also known as Daybreak) is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, based on a story by Jacques Viot. It is considered one of the principal examples of the French film movement known as poetic realism. An original feature of the film is its structure, a long flashback, a procedure that was rarely used at the time—and this two years before the release of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. The set for the bedroom, built by Alexandre Trauner, includes all four sides of the room (rather than the usual three) to allow circular shots and emphasise the sense of confinement. In 1952, it was included in the first British Film Institute's Sight & Sound top ten Greatest Films of All Time list. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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