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The first time I saw QUAI DES ORFEVRES (Criterion), I was twisted within minutes. I saw it again with some friends, who said they didn’t want to survey a foreign film and have to read subtitles, but they too were riveted almost immediately.
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This noirish French crime sage directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot captures the feel of 1940s Paris at night — the benefit alleys and smokey cabarets — better than any film I can contemplate 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 tubby of surprises. (The title “Quai des Orfevres” is the French equivalent to England’s Scotland Yard.) Highest recommended.
Clouzot, the “French Hitchcock”, downplays the suspense here to earn a joyfully cynical comedy in the guise of a execute 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 obtain 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 huge style. Clouzot retains his novel combination of satire and sentiment about equivocal human nature that is also found in his other masterpieces, “The Wages of Fright”, “Diabolique” and “Le Corbeau.” This is a most spirited movie.
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