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Because it is so uncompromising, so pure, "Port of Shadow's" particularly French brand of romantic fatalism still knocks us out decades after the fact. Jan 31, 2013 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Because it is so uncompromising, so pure, "Port of Shadow's" particularly French brand of romantic fatalism still knocks us out decades after the fact.
Kenneth Turan
From Gabin's fatigued magnetism to cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan's woodcut-worthy attention to texture, this is movie melancholia of the very highest order. Sep 11, 2012 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
From Gabin's fatigued magnetism to cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan's woodcut-worthy attention to texture, this is movie melancholia of the very highest order.
Eric Hynes
As a film that neither attempts more than it can do nor is satisfied with the trivial, Port of Shadows is a pleasure. Aug 29, 2012 | Full Review…
As a film that neither attempts more than it can do nor is satisfied with the trivial, Port of Shadows is a pleasure.
Otis Ferguson
Pessimistic, yet strangely sublime. May 3, 2012 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Pessimistic, yet strangely sublime.
Peter Bradshaw
Marcel Carné's film has fully earned its status as a classic of French poetic realism. May 3, 2012 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Marcel Carné's film has fully earned its status as a classic of French poetic realism.
Philip Concannon
Essentially, this is film noir, so there's crime and romance, but both are submerged beneath a resolutely ground-level exploration of lives in crisis -- a mood bolstered by shots of the down-and-dirty French port groaning into action. May 3, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Essentially, this is film noir, so there's crime and romance, but both are submerged beneath a resolutely ground-level exploration of lives in crisis -- a mood bolstered by shots of the down-and-dirty French port groaning into action.
Dave Calhoun
This collaboration of Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert is a highlight of French poetic realism and a masterpiece of world cinema. Jan 24, 2013 | Rating: A | Full Review…
This collaboration of Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert is a highlight of French poetic realism and a masterpiece of world cinema.
Emanuel Levy
We empathize with their resistance to suffer, but it's hard to feel something other than philosophical respect for characters who think of swimmers as soon-to-be drowned men. Sep 13, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
We empathize with their resistance to suffer, but it's hard to feel something other than philosophical respect for characters who think of swimmers as soon-to-be drowned men.
Diego Semerene
[A] 1938 masterpiece of poetic realism... May 5, 2012 | Full Review…
[A] 1938 masterpiece of poetic realism...
Philip French
Carné's thrilling film is an important and undervalued influence on the post-war American noirs of the 1940s. May 5, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Carné's thrilling film is an important and undervalued influence on the post-war American noirs of the 1940s.
Shaun Munro
One of the definitive examples of the 'poetic realism' style of French cinema of the pre-war and wartime years... May 4, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
One of the definitive examples of the 'poetic realism' style of French cinema of the pre-war and wartime years...
Miles Fielder
The results are frustrating, though Michel Simon is wonderfully vulnerable as the shopkeeper Zabel, who complains about the injustice of loving like Romeo but looking like Bluebeard. May 3, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The results are frustrating, though Michel Simon is wonderfully vulnerable as the shopkeeper Zabel, who complains about the injustice of loving like Romeo but looking like Bluebeard.
Leo Robson
Love is the only hope for people who, paradoxically seek freedom in their already predestined lives. An elegy with haunting, dreamlike atmosphere.
Super Reviewer
an excellent thriller/mystery from marcel carne about a wandering soldier running from his past, but is unable to run from himself. the film has great performances, especially from gabin, and has a perfect running time to tell a simple story but keep the intrigue.
The key word here seems to be "atmospheric". This is a film that permeates your space. Jean Gabin (àlaThe Grand Illusion) is tailor-made for characters with tortured souls and hidden secrets. Wonderfully effective French noir.
Nelly...girl of the waterfront...who at seventeen...had lived far beyond her years
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