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Le Jour se lève (Daybreak)

Le Jour se lève (Daybreak) (1939)

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Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert's classic of French poetic realism stars Jean Gabin in one of his most famous roles as Francois, a rough, barrel-chested loner who hides out in his apartment awaiting for the police to arrive. Francois has killed a man in a crime of passion, the slimy lothario Valentin (Jules Berry). As he listens in the darkness of his Normandy apartment to the police sirens closing in and getting louder, he recalls the two women that he loved -- Francoise (Jacqueline Laurent)

Sep 15, 2009

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Possibly the best of the Carné-Prévert films, certainly their collaboration at its most classically pure.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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The pity of it all seems slightly forced, the melodramatics too obvious.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times
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The screenplay is by Jacques Prevert, the most accomplished dialogist of the period, and the famous sets, with their overtones of German expressionism, are by Alexander Trauner.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Set convincingly on the streets and in the tenements, every frame here feels lived in.

July 19, 2009 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | Comment (1)
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A superb example of French poetic realism.

January 9, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
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What brings this film into greatness is the absolutely pitch-perfect lucid performance by Gabin.

March 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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This is the best of the fatalistic dramas scripted by Prévert and directed by Carné, a doom-laden romance, heavier on atmosphere than tension, and made memorable by the performances.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4
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Audience Reviews for Le Jour se lève (Daybreak)

awesome, i saw this a long time ago
July 4, 2011
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one of the great doomed romantic epics of poetic realism, with director marcel carné, his writing partner, the poet jacques prévert, and the fatalistic hero of so many films of the era, jean gabin, all at the height of their powers. wonderful atmosphere
May 12, 2011
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