A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.
Predictably, all ends tragically. But mondieu, doesn’t it look sublime?
The results are frustrating.
Pessimistic, yet strangely sublime.
One of the all-time greats of European cinema also stands as testimony to the utterly amazing vagaries of filmmaking.
A BFI Southbank season of films starring the great Jean Gabin has put a new print of this 1938 masterpiece of poetic realism back on to the big screen at lucky cinemas around the country.
Marcel Carné's film has fully earned its status as a classic of French poetic realism.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Sunday May 13, 2012, until Tuesday May 15, 2012. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Monday May 28, 2012, until Thursday May 31, 2012. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com