Marcel Carné
Date of Birth: 18 Aug 1906
Country: France
Biography: Marcel Albert Carné (18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945), the last of which has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time.
Total Credits at Criticker: 20 (Director), 10 (Writer)
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This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine, an actress and otherwise woman-about-town who calls herself Garance. Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: Frederick, a pretentious actor; Lacenaire, a conniving thief; and Count Eduard of Monteray. The story is further complicated by Nathalie, an actress who is in love with Baptiste... (imdb)
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A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city. (imdb)
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Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy... (imdb)
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Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a truckdriver, Laurent... and of course they fall in love. But they will be pursued by fate. (imdb)
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At the end of the 15th century, two minstrels Gilles and Dominique come from nowhere into the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hughes' daughter, while Dominique charms both Hugues and Ann's fiance. Gilles and Dominique are not really in love : they are sent by the Devil to desperate people. But Ann is so pure that Gilles is caught to his own trap... How will they fight against the Devil ? (imdb)
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A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after having shooted at Renee, Pierre lacks of courage and ran away. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renee goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renee is still thinking of Pierre ... (imdb)
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After an influential apprenticeship with the filmmaker Jacques Feyder in the mid-1930s, Marcel Carné made his auspicious directorial debut with this moody melodrama of a love triangle between the proprietress of a seedy nightclub (Rosay), her gangster lover (Préjean), and her not-so-innocent daughter (Lanvin). (moma.org)
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Mistaken identities and people in disguise lead everyone to suspect everyone else of murder
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Paris, during the winter after its Liberation. Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp, pretending that he the Destiny, predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world. The same evening, Jean meets Malou. He soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave Raymond away to the Gestapo... (imdb)
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Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo's lover, a rich heiress. (imdb)
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Two very different lookalikes, both played by Gilbert Bécaud, court the waitress Marinette.
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Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small fishermen village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey. (imdb)
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A young prisoner finds himself mysteriously set free into a village of people who have lost their memory. There he meets Juliette who leads him to a stange castle.
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Victor Garrec, a retired boxer,dreams of finding a young talented man to mold into a champion. He thinks he's found this man in André Ménard.
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François, a big star, finds himself in a strange love affair after his wife asks for a divorce.
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In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond. (imdb)
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A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds. (imdb)
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Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929) - Short Film
Now long departed from this earth, their daily worries, preoccupations and hopes of a better future henceforth consigned to eternity, fixed for ever in time thanks to the magic of celluloid, ordinary Parisians, people just like you and me, shoot off one sunny Sunday in 1929 on a day's outing to their El Dorado...... (imdb)
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