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Les Portes de la Nuit (1946)

Drama | 100 minutes
3,17 24 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Alternative title: Gates of the Night

Country: France

Directed by: Marcel Carné

Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Yves Montand and Nathalie Nattier

IMDb score: 7,1 (1.413)

Releasedate: 3 December 1946

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Les Portes de la Nuit plot

Jean Diego is a resistance hero who, in post-war Paris, encounters a clochard posing as 'the Destiny' and predicts that he will meet a beautiful woman, but that this will lead to disastrous consequences. In the evening he indeed meets the beautiful Malou, the unfortunate wife of a black merchant. Her brother Guy turns out to be a collaborator and the one who betrayed Jean Diego's friend Raymond to the Gestapo...

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Guy Sénéchal

Jean Diego

Monsieu Sénéchal

Raymond Lécuyer

Le clochard / La fortune

Claire Lécuyer

Mme Germaine

Étiennette

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Movsin

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The night opens the gate to happiness and unhappiness, love and hate...

The umpteenth collaboration between Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert (screenplay and dialogues) resulted first and foremost in a visually very beautiful film with some fantasy (the clochard "Destin") and secondly the experiences during one night of a few people, who how are connected in some way or another.

A whole cast of important French actors, with the young Yves Montand in particular standing out. Clearly still a bit awkward, just like Serge Reggiani and what about the teenage girl Dany Robin in love.

The impact of WWII and collaboration were very topical at the time of the film's release and play an important role in the intrigue of this film, although not a masterpiece, but certainly worth watching.

The beautiful chanson "Les Feuilles Mortes" was written by Jacques Prévert and recorded by Yves Montand and is one of the most important songs in his repertoire. In the film it can be heard instrumentally and only a small part of the text is presented.

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yeyo

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Unpleasant entry into the 'Carne Cinematic Universe'. The vitalistic, novelesque of his pre-war films has completely disappeared and has to make way for a schematic world where everything revolves around 'tragedy'. A universe without daylight, consisting only of shadowy corners, dreary hangars... You would almost think that Paris is a port city, I even swore I heard a fog horn every now and then! The characters, all fateful paupers who stare meaningfully into space, including a character 'Fate' (!!!!) who, with a piercing look, admonishes everyone: "don't do it, you unfortunate one!!!!" The enormous self-pity of Montand's character at the end feels very misplaced: his scrap of the evening is shot down, is that a reason to buck like that? Or maybe we should interpret his suffering as a personification of The Collective Consciousness, of The Sorrow of France, a country torn apart by The Great Betrayal during the occupation. But who was it again who made two Vichy regime classics for Continental Films under the auspices of Goebels? Sans commentaire, n'est-ce pas, cher Marcel?

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T.O.

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At times very beautifully filmed and acted, with those characteristic faces of Montand and Reggiani. Even a bit noir-ish.

The story is not very special and sometimes the atmosphere is a bit too poetic for me.

I had expected that Montand himself would sing Les Feuilles Mortes, but that moment did not materialize.

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