{"id":127,"date":"2007-07-01T18:01:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2007\/07\/01\/quai-des-orfevres\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T17:01:51","slug":"quai-des-orfevres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2007\/07\/01\/quai-des-orfevres\/","title":{"rendered":"QUAI DES ORFEVRES"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\"Quai<\/a><\/p>\n

\nFormat:<\/B> Cinema

\nRelease date:<\/B> 25 June 2007

\nDistributor:<\/B> Optimum Releasing

\nDirector:<\/B> Henri-Georges Clouzot

\nCast:<\/B> Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Jouis Jouvet, Simone Renant

\nFrance 1947

\n106 minutes\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nQuai des Orfí\u00ad\u00c2\u00a8vres<\/I> opens strikingly with singer Jenny Lamour posing for saucy photos to give to her husband Maurice, who exchanged the conservatoire for the nightclub to be her accompanist. It closes with a snowy Christmas scene of reconciliation; after the sweaty anxiety of the intervening events, the sentimental resolution for once seems well earned. The film is a seemingly effortless evocation of the low life in 1940s Paris – a shadowed, intimate, but open world through which ugly and beautiful, young and old, victim, suspect, and pursuer move freely. No door ever seems to be locked. Unlike the city today it is a world of belonging – everyone seems connected with everyone else. Showgirl, concierge, policeman, cloakroom attendant, all the denizens of the nightclub and the alley are equal in the eye of Clouzot’s camera. Jenny and Maurice embroil themselves in a crime through emotions with which it is all too easy to sympathize – jealousy, and a desperate desire to escape from poverty. Apart stands the distant-eyed photographer Dora, a ray of glamour amid the seediness. ‘Une drôle de fille’, she calls herself; the nature of her emotional entanglement is recognized and saluted in the end by her counterpart, the film’s other clear-sighted loner. This is Antoine, the maimed Foreign Legionnaire turned police inspector; like the others he is a troubled, flawed soul redeemed through love, in his case for the son he has brought back from Africa. Frank but not lurid, grim but humane, Quai des Orfí\u00ad\u00c2\u00a8vres<\/I> is a perfectly realized thriller of the mundane, never cynical enough to be noir<\/I>, and all the better for it.<\/p>\n

Peter Momtchiloff <\/B><\/I><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film is a seemingly effortless evocation of the low life in 1940s Paris – a shadowed, intimate, but open world through which ugly and beautiful, young and old, victim, suspect, and pursuer move freely.
\nReview by Peter Momtchiloff <\/B><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds-and-blu-rays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2308,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/05\/03\/le-quai-des-brumes\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":0},"title":"Le quai des brumes","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"May 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The label \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpoetic realism' was never more perfectly used than in describing two films made by Marcel Carn\u00e9 at the end of the 30s: Le Jour se Lève and Le Quai des Brumes. Review by Paul Huckerby","rel":"","context":"In "Check it out"","block_context":{"text":"Check it out","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/category\/check-it-out\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/review_Quaidesbrumes-594x431.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/review_Quaidesbrumes-594x431.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/review_Quaidesbrumes-594x431.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4438,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2014\/05\/21\/blanche\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":1},"title":"Blanche","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"May 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"With its elegant costumes and set design, Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s sophisticated medieval tragedy exceeds conventional historical dramas. Review by Alison Frank","rel":"","context":"In "Check it out"","block_context":{"text":"Check it out","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/category\/check-it-out\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"review_Blanche","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/review_Blanche-594x334.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/review_Blanche-594x334.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/review_Blanche-594x334.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":652,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2009\/06\/04\/anything-for-her\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":2},"title":"ANYTHING FOR HER","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"June 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Fred Cavay\u00e9's debut thriller delivers a unique slice of Gallic escapism. Review by Toby Weidmann","rel":"","context":"In "Cinema releases"","block_context":{"text":"Cinema releases","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/category\/cinema-releases\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Anything for Her","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/review_anythingforher-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":778,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2009\/10\/04\/la-tete-contre-les-murs\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":3},"title":"La t&#234te contre les murs","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"October 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"La T\u00ed\u00aate contre les murs started as the pet project of Jean-Pierre Mocky, who wrote the script (from Herv\u00e9 Bazin's novel) and cast the actors, including himself in the lead role as a bequiffed, leather-clad, motorcycling rebel who finds himself \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcimprisoned' in a mental institution by his lawyer father. Review\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Home entertainment"","block_context":{"text":"Home entertainment","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/category\/dvds-and-blu-rays\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"La Tete contre les murs","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/review_latetecontrelesmurs-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1561,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2011\/03\/04\/les-diaboliques\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":4},"title":"Les diaboliques","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"March 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In Clouzot's vision, truth is mutable, love is a lie, human relationships are constantly shifting and the human heart is complex, contradictory and compromised. Review by Virginie S\u00e9lavy","rel":"","context":"In "Check it out"","block_context":{"text":"Check it out","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/category\/check-it-out\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/review_lesdiaboliques-594x467.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/review_lesdiaboliques-594x467.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/review_lesdiaboliques-594x467.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2254,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/04\/04\/le-havre\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":5},"title":"Le Havre","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"April 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Directed with a lighter touch than usual, and coming complete with a real feel-good element, this charming fable could win Aki Kaurismäki some new fans. Review by Paul Huckerby","rel":"","context":"In "Check it out"","block_context":{"text":"Check it out","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/category\/check-it-out\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/review_LeHavre-594x394.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/review_LeHavre-594x394.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/review_LeHavre-594x394.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}