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Lady Killer
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Director: Jean Grémillon, Jean Grémillon
1937 / 94min / DCP
Grémillon was still in the employ of Berlin’s UFA Studios when he began shooting this adaptation of an André Boucler novel which stars Jean Gabin as a Don Juan of the French Foreign Legion who sets his sights on seducing Mireille Balin—and accidentally falls in love for real. The atmospheric work of cinematographer Günther Rittau (The Blue Angel) connects Grémillon’s film to the legacy of German expressionism, while the electric reunion of Pépé le Moko co-stars Gabin and Balin and the film’s pervasive air of tragic romantic fatalism show an affinity with French poetic realism.
4K restoration from the original negative by Hiventy. Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Classics section.
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