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Port of Shadows

Port of Shadows

Romance Drama Crime

1938, Movie, 1h 33min

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news. Also starring the blue-eyed phenomenon Michèle Morgan in her first major role, and the menacing Michel Simon, PORT OF SHADOWS starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies. Adapting the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan, the inimitable team of director Marcel Carné and writer Jacques Prévert deliver a quintessential example of poetic realism and a classic film from the golden age of French cinema.

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Critic David Parkinson

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10

Not a cheerful evening's viewing, this, but a superb and compelling example of melancholic realism.

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Critic Peter Bradshaw

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10

...dark, mysterious and shrouded in sensuous fog that Gabin's character says is part of the emotional weather he carries around with him.

Read full review at The Guardian

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You can stream Port of Shadows on: The Criterion Channel

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Port of Shadows include Bad Seed, Algiers, Kid Galahad, Quai des Brumes, Jimmy the Gent, Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher.

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Port of Shadows was released in theaters on October 29, 1939.