One of the definitive policiers of the 1950s, adapted from his own novel by Auguste Le Breton (Rififi) and directed with nocturnal grace by Henri Decoin.
“All you have to do is turn that dial and you have all the company you want, right there on the screen. Drama, comedy, life's parade at your fingertips.”1
“So you think this is a kind of lifetime style for me? That is not the case. I answer that a film’s rhythm is a part of the milieu that it shows.
A man is seen wandering around in Antwerp, avoiding all contact with other people. He is penniless and desperately wants to leave the country, but can’t pay for his travel. The only people who like him are the boatman’s wife, a prostitute and a little orphan girl called Gigi.
“Artists and Models, which provided the Dean Martin – Jerry Lewis duo with its finest screen hour, is a dizzily reflexive play on movie illusion.
“I want to live honestly and refuse to contribute to any form of fascism”
Fritz Lang, 1946
Philippe Roger: The author’s ‘vision of the world’ would then be primarily a spatial, concrete point of view?