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5 May 2012 4:03 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A BFI Southbank season of films starring the great Jean Gabin has put a new print of this 1938 masterpiece of poetic realism back on to the big screen at lucky cinemas around the country. Raymond Chandler said that Bogart could be tough without a gun, and Gabin was France's Bogart. He was at his best in the 1930s playing doomed, blue-collar losers, gangsters and military deserters (as in Le quai des brumes), most especially for Duvivier, Carné and Renoir. His postwar films were less good, though Becker's Touchez pas au Grisbi and Renoir's French Cancan are excellent, and he got to play Maigret three times as well as the French president, and to co-star with Bardot in one of her better films, En cas de malheur.

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