opinion: Zola was a pessimist! You know for sure that sun will not shine in this Renoir´s poetic fatalism 😦 If "The Maltese Falcon-1941" was the first Film-Noir, "La Bête Humaine-1938" could be the precursor of Film-Noir. Fate, corruption, femme-fatale, double-murder, double-cross, cuckolding, chain smoking, adultery, love triangle, suicide, gambling, alcoholism, madness, child abuse, robbery, tragedy … Continue reading La Bête Humaine (1938)
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opinion: He looks like a gentleman. He behaves like a gentleman. He gambles like a gentleman. He is a broken gentleman. He is a gentleman-gangster. He is police-friend-gangster. Off course you hope that everything goes well for Bob (even the robbery), since he is a very nice guy. You don´t care about right or wrong. You … Continue reading Bob, Le Flambeur (1956)
opinion: Before Film-Noir became Film-Noir, Mr. Couzot already did Noir movies... he was the master of thrillers in France. Le Corbeau is about the cuckolded village old doctor, forcing the young and good looking new doctor to have an affair with his very attractive and unfaithful young wife (simple as that). But since the guy is looking … Continue reading Le Corbeau (1943)
opinion: Inspecteur Slimane (Gridoux) is the poisoned spider providing the web to catch Pepe (Gabin) the famous thief from Paris, hiding himself inside the Casbah, so the local cops could not touch him... only Inspecteur Slimane who has a friendly relation to Pepe and is always around him, not hiding what are his intensions, to get … Continue reading Pepe le Moko (1937)
opinion: What can be expected from a wife (Therese/Signoret) oppressed by her protected, hypochondriac and simulated husband (Camille/Duby) as well by the cynical, protective and cruel mother-in-law (Madam Raquin/Sylvie)? Therese is like a vulcan ready to erupt, dreaming about what she doesn't have in her life: freedom and love (maybe something else...). The day her "principe" appear for … Continue reading Therese Raquin (1953)
Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy...
After five years in prison, Tony le Stéphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club L' Âge d' Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress.
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