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31 March 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Ken Branagh is a dead ringer for Jean Gabin, and Idris Elba has a date with destiny

Gift of the Gabin

Watching the crystal-clean restoration of Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion released in cinemas last week, I was struck by how much the great Jean Gabin looks like Ken Branagh. Or the other way around, I suppose. Gabin is young and dashing as Maréchal, the French airman held in the prisoner of war camp, but as he allows his stubble to grow he looks increasingly like the Branagh who was so charming and chatty on the awards carpets this year. Obviously Branagh made much of his admiration for Laurence Olivier, to whom he has often been compared and whom he plays in My Week with Marilyn, but even in that film he actually looks more like the later Gabin, in particular in Renoir's sumptuous French Cancan from 1955.

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