Port of Shadows

Tender... frankly adult. Filled with almost every emotion known to man
Port of Shadows
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 13, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1938
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 2,356
Rating: A -- This collaboration of Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert is a highlight of French poetic realism and a masterpiece of world cinema. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jan 24, 2013
Rating: 5/5 -- Pessimistic, yet strangely sublime. Full Review
Guardian
May 3, 2012
Rating: 5/5 -- 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. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Jan 31, 2013
Rating: 3/4 -- We empathize with their resistance to suffer, but it's hard to feel something other than philosophical respect for characters who think of swimmers as soon-to-be drowned men. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Sep 13, 2012
What is often forgotten when discussing poetic realism is how entertaining the films are, and none is more so than Le Quai des Brumes. Full Review
Electric Sheep
May 3, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Carné's thrilling film is an important and undervalued influence on the post-war American noirs of the 1940s. Full Review
What Culture
May 5, 2012
Rating: 5/5 -- Marcel Carné's film has fully earned its status as a classic of French poetic realism. Full Review
Little White Lies
May 3, 2012

Product Description:

Based on the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan, Marcel Carne's PORT OF SHADOWS is a defining film in the genre of poetic realism. In the tragic story of doomed love, a fugitive and a malevolent trustee's beautiful charge risk everything to have each other for just one night. Carne and screenwriter Jacques Prevert's award-winning film features the first lead performance of beauty Michele Morgan.

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