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Marcel Carné |
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1909 - 1996 |
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Born August 18,
Paris, France |
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Key
Production Country: France |
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Key Genres: Drama,
Urban Drama, Romantic Drama, Romance, Melodram, Crime Drama |
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Key
Collaborators: Jacques Prevert (Screenwriter), Alexander Trauner
(Production Designer), Arletty (Leading Player), Maurice Jaubert (Composer),
Roger Hubert (Cinematographer), Henri Rust (Editor), Maurice Thiriet
(Composer), Rene Genin (Character Player), Jean Gabin (Leading Player), Pierre Brasseur (Leading Player) |
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Highly
Recommended: Hotel
du Nord (1938), Le Jour se lève (1939)*, Les Enfants du paradis (1945)* |
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Recommended:
Drole de drame (1937), Port of Shadows (1938)*, The Devil's Envoys (1942) |
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Worth a Look:
Therese Raquin (1953) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ]
[
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ] [
Films
de France Profile ] [
Biography by Ginette Vincendeau ] [
Derek Malcolm's Films of the Century ] [
Biography by Daryl Chin
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Tribute
to Les Enfants du paradis ] |
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Books:
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Child
of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema ] |
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"Marcel
Carné was an unfashionable figure long before his directing
career came to an end. Scorned by a new generation of
filmmakers, Carné grew more and more out of touch with
contemporary developments, despite an eagerness to explore new
subjects and use young performers... While future critics are
unlikely to find much to salvage from the latter part of his
career, films like Drole de drame and Quai des brumes,
Le Jour se lève and Les Enfants du paradis, remain
rich and complex monuments to a decade of filmmaking that will
reward fresh and unbiased critical attention." -
Roy Armes (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998)
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"Working closely with poet-screenwriter Jacques Prévert, Carné
rose to great prominence in the French cinema of the late 30s
and early 40s. Their collaboration produced such memorable films
as Drole de Drame/Bizarre Bizarre, Quai des
Brumes/Port of Shadows, and Le Jour se lève/Daybreak,
which were permeated with romantic fatalism and have become
prime examples of the "poetic realism" school of the French
cinema of the period." -
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MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994) |
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"If
Carné never fulfilled his early promise, his status as an
accomplished craftsman remains assured. His most memorable work,
made between the fall of the Popular Front and the Liberation,
stands as a lasting testimony to the mood of France at that time." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"Early success with symbolic works such as the brilliant,
humanistic, funny Les Enfants du paradis (45) wasn't
repeated with later, more down-to-earth productions." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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"Nowadays,
they don't gamble; they're scared. They're watching the ticket
sales, day after day. They don't want to take risks." -
Marcel Carné |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include Les Portes de la nuit (1946), La Marie du
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"For a period of seven or eight years, roughly 1938 to 1946, Marcel Carné was held in higher esteem than any other French filmmaker, even
Jean Renoir...
Jenny (1936) was the beginning of a spectacularly fruitful collaboration with screenwriter Jacques Prévert - a partnership which might be compared to
Powell and Pressburger on the other side of the channel. A surrealist, who revelled in puns, word play, symbolism, farce and romantic ardour, Prévert brought wit and poetry to the table. In celebrating Prévert, critics have perhaps undervalued Carné's distinctive attributes: his refined sense of composition and light, and his ability to endow studio artifice with life."
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Tom Charity, The Rough Guide to Film |
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Robin Buss' Top 10 Directors |
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