Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes, Marcel Carné, 1938, France)
Free for students
New Restoration
One of the finest examples of poetic realism in cinema, Port of Shadows captures the growing pessimism of the prewar French people.
Film/Video Theater
From the golden age of French cinema, Port of Shadows is an early collaboration between director Marcel Carné and writer Jacques Prévert, the team who made the incomparable Children of Paradise. Set in the port city of Le Havre (seemingly always shrouded in fog), the film stars French icon Jean Gabin as an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate interferes, and acts of both revenge and kindness make him front-page news as he travels through an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies. Also starring Michèle Morgan and Michel Simon. In French with English subtitles. (91 mins., 4K DCP)
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