Port of Shadows
Tender... frankly adult. Filled with almost every emotion known to man
Tender... frankly adult. Filled with almost every emotion known to man
Crime, Drama, Romance
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1938
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Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
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Details
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
17 May 1938
Country:
FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
6 wins & 2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Because it is so uncompromising, so pure, "Port of Shadow's" particularly French brand of romantic fatalism still knocks us out decades after the fact.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan 2013
fresh:
From Gabin's fatigued magnetism to cinematographer Eugen Schufftan's woodcut-worthy attention to texture, this is movie melancholia of the very highest order.
– Eric Hynes,
Time Out New York,
11 Sep 2012
fresh:
As a film that neither attempts more than it can do nor is satisfied with the trivial, Port of Shadows is a pleasure.
– Otis Ferguson,
The New Republic,
29 Aug 2012
fresh:
Essentially, this is film noir, so there's crime and romance, but both are submerged beneath a resolutely ground-level exploration of lives in crisis -- a mood bolstered by shots of the down-and-dirty French port groaning into action.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
3 May 2012
fresh:
It's a thorough-going study in blacks and grays, without a free laugh in it; but it is also a remarkably beautiful motion picture from the purely pictorial standpoint and a strangely haunting drama.
– Frank S. Nugent,
New York Times,
28 Jan 2006