Port of Shadows
Making lists is an activity moviegoers are fond of. Every year, the same ritual: compilation of the ten best films, with comparative analyses, debates, heated discussions. But what about the ultimate list of the most outstanding films in the history of cinema? That is to say, those films that must be seen, those that have forever transformed the art of cinema, but also our way of seeing a culture, of understanding the world as well as our own lives? This program aims to tackle this challenge with nearly eighty films, produced between 1916 and 1960, while waiting for your lists!
A deserter from the colonial army tries to leave France. In the port city of Le Havre, he meets a young woman mistreated by her guardian.
Marcel Carné
Marcel Carné was a French film director and screenwriter. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, he made his mark in the history of French cinema in the 1930s and 1940s thanks to his collaboration with author and screenwriter Jacques Prévert. Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Daybreak (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945), the last of which has been widely cited as one of the greatest films of all time.
