Classic French cinema is nothing new to the long running distribution company StudioCanal, Having previously released a collection of Jean-Pierre Melville’s films, and the complete works of Jacques ...

Noble foundry worker François (Jean Gabin) shoots and kills weirdo circus dog-trainer Valentin (Jules Berry) and barricades himself in the attic. Armed police swarm up the stairs. Dissolving ...

One of the peaks of “poetic realism”, the 1930s film school known for its combination of leftwing attitudes, visual and verbal lyricism and a pessimistic view of lower-class characters snared by a ...

A kind of Scorsese-De Niro-Schrader of French ‘30s cinema, director Marcel Carné, actor Jean Gabin and screenwriter Jacques Prevert followed the classic Quai Des Brumes with the equally brilliant Le ...

Together with the remarkable Les Enfants du Paradis, Le Jour Se Lève (now re-released in a splendid new print) remains one of the great achievements of pre-war French cinema. And Jean Gabin’s ...

The film opens with a caption, one imposed by anxious producers, fearing that audiences would be baffled. It is a caption that sets up the concept of flashback: a man has taken a life; now he is ...

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 ...

When Le Jour Se Lève was released, however, the Vichy government's censors forced Carné to modify certain scenes and remove the names of Courant and Trauner from the opening credits as they were known ...

Cinestudio in Hartford will be showing a classic of 1930s French poetic realism, a movie that escaped unscathed from two very powerful enemies. “Le Jour se Leve” stars Jean Gabin as a criminal who ...