Trois chambres à Manhattan (1965)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Marcel Carné

Writers:

Marcel Carné (writer)
Jacques Sigurd (writer)

Release Date:

10 November 1965 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Annie Girardot	...	Kay Larsi
Maurice Ronet	...	Francois Comte
O.E. Hasse	...	Hourvitch
Roland Lesaffre	...	Pierre
Gabriele Ferzetti	...	Comte Larsi
Geneviève Page	...	Yolande Combes
Robert Hoffmann	...	Thierry
Margaret Nolan	...	June
Virginia Vee	...	La chanteuse noire
June Shelley		(as June Elliott)
Agnès Petit
Art Simmons
Leroy Haynes
Jean-François Rémi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Richard S. Castellano	...	Angry American
Joseph Rigano	...	Jean
Alan Rossett	...	Drunken sailor
Abe Vigoda	...	Waiter
Fritz Wepper	...	Fabien

Also Known As:

Three Rooms in Manhattan (International: English title)

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16 (f)

Company:

Les Productions Montaigne

Trivia:

Film debut for Robert De Niro (in a small uncredited part).

chilli con Carne

I've just seen this film and can find only one user comment which is negative in the extreme. Working with writer Jacques Prevert in the 30s Carne invented the concept of poetic realism when Tennessee Williams, who went on to exploit it, was still learning that it's i before e except after c. Prevert-Carne titles like Quai des brumes, Le jour se leve, les visiteurs du soir, les enfants du paradis are timeless.Their partnership ended when their first post-war effort, Les Portes de la nuit, bombed at the box office. Tho familiar with the Prevert-Carne films Carne's post-Prevert titles are elusive which is why I was glad of the chance to see trois chambres. Tho it misses the Prevert touch - as does Hotel du Nord for which Prevert was not available - it is still a worthwhile effort. Annie Girardot - still going strong 40 years later, I saw her on the Paris stage last year in the one-woman 'Madame Marguerite' for which she picked up the Moliere as Best Actress - is always worth watching and Carne still manages to create a mood light years away from anything being produced today. For cavillers the use of the very French soup-bowl size coffee cups is incongruous in Manhattan but otherwise a very creditable effort.