La Marie du port And then I'd like to...
- What would you like?
- I'd like you. You're still asking.
Marcel Carnet showed in this film how, due to staged decisions, you can achieve a completely different, truly dramatic sound in a trivial love story. Well, agree, we have already seen all this somewhere before: an elderly, confident boyfriend, a wealthy and young, inexperienced girl. Only we are the plot of Karne and Preve, so the plot will be burdened with two more figures - he will sleep with her older sister, and she will have a young and naive boyfriend. It’s time to smile, for Jean Gabin finds himself in the opposite of the situation in “Day Begins” – now he has to tempt and pursue.
And at first glance, his character will not seem positive - and he is not positive. An ordinary Frenchman, an ordinary man with his own shortcomings. That's how cute the movie will be. And believe me, all this fleeting empty communication will be twisted for the sake of just one scene - incredibly sexual in nature and very chaste in content.
Well, Jean Gabin is alone with Nicole Courcel. She's confused, especially when he locks the door. He is trying to keep up despite his pressure. On a compliment about the sweatshirt, removes it - showing the blouse, and not only the blouse. It's Nicole Courcel. Jean Gabin sees it and passes - suddenly, the scene drags on and moves to the final.
Perhaps from the point of view of flirting scenes, this is one of the most unusual and interesting in the history of cinema. As in martial arts scenes, the benchmark is a duel between Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee. There will be no specifics, guess everything for yourself, for example, on a very transparent final phrase Gaben about the color of the wedding dress.
Perhaps this is one of the weakest and simplest plots that Carne took up. But it was here, in my opinion, to a greater extent, his skill to show the key episode, without putting special logical stress, pretentious notes - in contrast to the main competitors, American melodramas.
8 out of 10