1947 · crime · noir · drama
Quai des Orfèvres
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot1h 48m1947
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Our read: Quai des Orfèvres (1947) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · noir · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / noir, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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