As is usually the case - expect a streak of a few fast films now especially before the snow melts in Alaska. I'm sorta wanting to buy some of the films coming up - (and own some of the ones in the future) but I'll probably rewatch them.
This is the style they call "French Poetic Realism" and Imogen Sara Smith has a good intro to it on the Channel. It's also our 2nd film with Jean Gabin, who for all intents and purposes is like the Harrison Ford of French Cinema at this time - Insanely good and charismatic, and we saw him in ....The Grand Illusion (1) and we'll see him again a bit later as he's just that good - here he plays a fugitive hiding out in the labyrinth streets and corridors of the Casbah of Algiers who is lured out by a Parisian woman.
It's pretty good, was remade almost shot for shot in America with a lot of the same music and background, and was a pretty enjoyable film - although he plays a rascal, thief, and (probably) killer, you really feel for him - he's trapped in a huge prison of his own making in the Casbah, but it's clear that it can only protect him for so long with police and informants hounding his trail inside.
I liked it....enough said
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