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Cassandra 2023-01-24 11:06:17
Ordinary noirs are ordinary people who turn into criminals. Most of them take outdoor scenes, there are beauties, and there is a tragic ending. The difference in this film is the closed indoor environment. The protagonist is a very charming criminal from the beginning. There are two women in this film, and the combination of the two leads to the fatality of the male protagonist. At the beginning, I introduce the place where the male protagonist is trapped, which can reflect how the colonists...
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Hal 2023-01-17 15:20:05
#franceculturalcenter# Poetic realism masterpiece: the peculiar residential landscape of Kasbah in Algiers, the fascinated Huaxinlang crime buddy Beibei, the cat-and-mouse game of the police and the gangster and the stereotyped love triangle; the shaping of the wretched police thinks of "Bonnie" "With Clyde"; "Three thousand widows will come to his funeral when he dies", the gentleman criminal falls in love with the dust goddess, they share the distant memory of Paris, and the ending of dying...
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Flo 2023-01-13 22:50:44
Voice narration, high and low angle scenes of the scene, aimed at the kid's tension. Struggle with...
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Kaia 2023-01-06 14:39:59
Duvere is always...
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Gabe 2022-12-09 20:01:03
Beibei doesn't like people calling the lady a bird because he is the bird trapped in the cage. No wonder the French will find traces of this film in Hollywood noir films and cherish them in the...
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Michel 2022-12-09 07:21:39
All he loves is Paris. According to a BBC documentary, it served as inspiration for Graham Greene's acclaimed novel, The Third...
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Sharon 2022-11-29 21:37:46
North Africa in old movies, the endless roofs of Casbah. 15.9.25 @Beijing French Cultural...
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Brandy 2022-11-20 04:44:03
[Poetic Realism] The French colonial background, the film has mature poetic realistic characteristics: focusing on the humble people living on the margins of society, frustrated life and short-lived beautiful feelings, and finally disillusioned with the tone of pessimistic sadness and fate. ｜ Heralding the ambiguous connection between men and women, several groups of soft-focus close-ups of positive and negative shots that gradually become tighter. Another way to express emotions from ancient...
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Clemens 2022-11-19 23:37:33
#FranceCulturalCenter# French poetic realism masterpiece, strong poetry and...
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Andrew 2022-11-13 08:14:41
The key works and personal preferences of film history cannot always be unified. The second half is getting better and better, and Gabin's personal charm is fully...
Pépé le Moko Comments
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Janvier: Pépé le Moko is still at large.
Meunier: Algiers isn't Pigalle.
Janvier: In Pigalle, he'd have been behind bars long ago.
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Meunier: The Casbah is like a labyrinth. I'll show you. You can say Pépé's gone underground. From the air, the district known as the Casbah looks like a teeming anthill, a vast staircase where terraces descend stepwise to the sea. Between these steps are dark, winding streets like so many pitfalls. They intersect, overlap, twist in and out, to form a jumble of mazes. Some are narrow, others vaulted. Wherever you look, stairways climb steeply like ladders, or descend into dark, putrid chasms and slimy porticos, dank and lice-infested. Dark, overcrowded cafés. Silent, empty streets with odd names. A population of 40,000 in an area meant for 10,000. From all over the world. Many, descended from the barbarians, are honest traditionalists, but a mystery to us. Kabyles. Chinese. Gypsies. Stateless. Slavs. Maltese. Negroes. Sicilians. Spaniards. And girls of all nations, shapes and sizes. The tall. The fat. The short. The ageless. The shapeless. Chasms of fat no one would dare approach. The houses have inner courtyards, which are like ceilingless cells that echo like wells and interconnect by means of terraces above. They're the exclusive domain of native women. But Europeans are tolerated. They form a city apart, which, step by step, stretches down to the sea. Colorful, dynamic, multifaceted, boisterous, there's not one Casbah, but hundreds. Thousands. And this teeming maze is what Pépé calls home.
