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| ACTORS: | Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 05 March, 1948 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion Collection |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - French |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429176924 |
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Customer Reviews of Quai des Orfevres - Criterion Collection
Joyfully Cynical Comedy Clouzot, the "French Hitchcock", downplays the suspense here to make a joyfully cynical comedy in the guise of a murder mystery about Parisian show-biz lowlife. Bernard Blier plays a loser-ish musician (who looks like, in the words of one critic, "a homicidal Bob Newhart") who is crazily jealous about his hotsy-totsy wife, the night-club singer Jenny Lamour. When she threatens to hook up with millionaire Brignon (the amazingly repellent Charles Dullin), mayhem ensues. Blier and wife are aided by their neighbor, the smut photographer Dora (who has a "masculine aspect" to her, if you get my drift) but the police are called, in the person of Louis Jouvet's magnificently dour detective. The film explores the raffish milieu of low-rent entertainment of the 1940's with great style. Clouzot retains his unique combination of satire and sentiment about equivocal human nature that is also found in his other masterpieces, "The Wages of Fear", "Diabolique" and "Le Corbeau." This is a most entertaining movie.
FABULOUS FRENCH NOIR
The first time I saw QUAI DES ORFEVRES (Criterion), I was hooked within minutes. I saw it again with some friends, who said they didn't want to see a foreign film and have to read subtitles, but they too were riveted almost immediately. This noirish French crime story directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot captures the feel of 1940s Paris at night -- the back alleys and smokey cabarets -- better than any film I can think of. But more than that, it reveals the unexpected human behavior that revolves around a possessive husband, a sexy night club singer, a best girlfriend photographer, a murdered lecherous movie producer and the persistent investigation of a weary police inspector. This terrific film is full of surprises and my favorite of this week's picks. (The title "Quai des Orfevres" is the French equivalent to England's Scotland Yard.) Highest recommended.