Key
Collaborators: Jacques Prevert (Screenwriter), Alexander Trauner
(Production Designer), Arletty (Leading Player), Maurice Jaubert (Composer),
Rene Genin (Character Player), Marcel Peres (Character Player), Jean Gabin
(Leading Player), Pierre Brasseur (Leading Player), Michel Simon (Leading
Player), Roger Hubert (Cinematographer)
Highly
Recommended: Hotel
du Nord (1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), Les Enfants du paradis (1945)
Recommended:
Drole de drame (1937), Port of Shadows (1938), The Devil's Envoys (1942)
1,000 Greatest Films: Port
of Shadows (1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942), Les
Enfants du paradis (1945)
"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)
"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." - (The
MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994)
"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)
"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)
"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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11/01/2008 01:31 AM.
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