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LE JOUR SE LÈVE (Daybreak)  

Director: Marcel Carne
Year: 1939
Runtime: 87 min.
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
Color: B&W
Format: 16mm

We hear what sounds like two men arguing behind a closed door, then a gunshot rings out. A wounded man stumbles out of the apartment, falls down the stairs and lies dead on the landing. Police come to investigate and shots are fired at them through the door. By nightfall, police reinforcements have arrived, some taking positions on neighboring rooftops while on-lookers gather on the street below. We go inside the locked apartment to see the killer as he begins to remember that day at the factory when he first saw the beautiful young woman delivering a bouquet of flowers to the wrong address.


"One of the most superb and striking examples of French "poetic-realism" and certainly the finest of that country's films of the 1930s."Motion Picture Guide

"Marcel Carne's gift for composition and expressionistic lighting, along with Alexander Trauner's sets and Maurice Jaubert's score, achieve a most memorable fusion of symbolism and realism."
— Gordon Walters, Magill's Survey of Cinema


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Monday, May 4
6:30 pm

STUDIO ON 4TH
432 East 4th Street

$6 General
$4 GBFS Members