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• • One reason the French picked up on American film noir so quickly in the late '40s was that they'd had their own films... read more on Time Out

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    Fate and Fog

    There is a gloomy inevitability that hangs over this film. When a soldier on the run hitches a lift into the port of Le Havre we know that there will be no ... read more »

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    • 19 Sep 2007 at 13:07

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    Possibly the zenith of poetic realism

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    Port of shadows is considered one of the most prestigious French films. Probably one of the seminal works of poetic realism, which prefigured the aesthetic of ... read more »

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    • 09 Dec 2010 at 21:35

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    Port of Shadows

    Atmospheric and snappy affair, well acted and tightly scripted. Despite the doomed romance at the centre, it lacks a little emotional impact, but still keeps ... read more »

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    • 13 Aug 2009 at 23:31

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    dated, overrated and overdramatic

    Not much of a screenplay, more a collection of non-sequitors declaimed by people barely listening to each other. Jean Gabin is an army deserter who is supposed ... read more »

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    Stodge

    I normally enjoy old French films but found this one hard-going.It was too dated(if that makes sense.)I only kept watching to get my money's worth!(To be ... read more »

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    • 29 Sep 2007 at 11:07

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    Fate and Fog

    There is a gloomy inevitability that hangs over this film. When a soldier on the run hitches a lift into the port of Le Havre we know that there will be no ... read more »

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    Bad day at Le Havre

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    Michel Carne’s film is an example of a trend called ‘poetic realism’ that emerged in French cinema in the 1930s during the pessimistic atmosphere... read more »

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    • 30 May 2007 at 08:38
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