Port of Shadows (Le Quai des brumes)

"this must be what happiness feels like." as the kids say, this gave me "all of the feels." so dark that the relentless walls of fog ultimately amount to the shining light of hope... Gabin and Morgan play characters who can see through that veil all too well. plays…

davidehrlich

that moment where the dog struggles free from the leash just wrecked me—to me the dog represents a kind of protector figure, or maybe is a symbol of jean's freedom, and watching how the dog follows him without a leash, then is leashed, then is tied to a pole in the moments…

nora

One of the most enduring images of the French cinema is that of Michèle Morgan in beret and trenchcoat as Nelly, the doom-laden heroine of Marcel Carné's masterpiece of French poetic realism. She was only 18 years old when she made the film but it helped make her one of…

trolleyfreak

Unlikely that I'll fall in love as hard again this year.

Anna Imhof 🌸

When people say “poetic realism“, I want to see a film like “Port of Shadows“. This movie has everything about poetry and love. It's the failure of community in the face of alienation.

Nasim Ss🪄

Such a simple story, constructed from what would become cliches of French film noir and poetic realist cinema but pretty daring and original at the time (especially when compared with Hays code-controlled films coming out in the U.S. in that period - hell, it would take…

D Rock

Jean is a man of few words, but his demeanor and his clothing speak loudly enough about his condition. He’s dressed as a soldier and aimlessly wanders somewhere outside the city; he’s at the edge of the world and at the edge of himself. Although the word is never uttered in…

Rizki

"Do you love life?" "...it has its moments." So few and far between.

Timcop

A soldier who’s clearly deserted his unit hitchhikes his way to the port city of Le Havre, and ends up hanging around with the local denizens and getting involved with a woman as well as a local gangster. Not that much happens per se, but what it lacks in narrative twists…

atmartin