Postwar film noir from the country that gave us the term. (Originally released in the U.S. as Jenny Lamour.) The final plot twist reveals nothing so much as the essential trashiness of the project, yet the atmosphere of damp nocturnal streets and seedy backstage show business and European sexual frankness is strong enough to be practically smelled, and the workings of the jaws of fate do indeed draw you deep into noir before spitting you out into the trash bin. Indelible characterization by Louis Jouvet of the unprepossessing, plodding, scrupulous, slightly crippled policeman, who enters the film late and completely takes it over: a sort of Gallic Walter Huston, with a big solid bony dignified head encasing a crafty intellect. Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Simone Renant; directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. (1947) — Duncan Shepherd
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