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Daybreak
Directed by
Marcel Carné
Not Rated
1940
1h 33m
Crime
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Drama
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7.6
92%
88%
7.6
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After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
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Cast of Daybreak
Jean Gabin
François
Jacqueline Laurent
Françoise
Jules Berry
M. Valentin
Arletty
Clara
Mady Berry
La concierge
René Génin
Le concierge
Arthur Devère
M. Gerbois
René Bergeron
Le patron du café
Bernard Blier
Gaston
Germaine Lix
La chanteuse
Gabrielle Fontan
La vieille dame dans l'escalier
Jacques Baumer
Le commissaire
Marcel Pérès
Paulo
Annie Carriel
Une locataire
Léonce Corne
Georges Douking
L'aveugle
Henry Farty
Georges Gosset
Un agent
Robert Le Ray
Albert Malbert
Un agent
Daybreak Ratings & Reviews
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Visually creative thriller-romance anticipates film noir.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Le Jour Se Leve" is an exploration of the question of who we love and why and how we love them that is surprisingly fresh and involving.
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
Like Marcel Carn's earlier Port of Shadows, Daybreak establishes a versatile visual palette that exerted a significant influence over classical noir.
Village Voice
Stephanie Zacharek
Gorgeously melancholy, and not just because of its tragic love-triangle plot ...
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
This prototype of film noir, from 1939, is both a grim feast of prewar French acting and a catalogue of French moods on the eve of disaster.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Set convincingly on the streets and in the tenements, every frame here feels lived in.
Variety
Variety Staff
The story is excellently conceived and planned.
TV Guide
A superb example of French poetic realism.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
What brings this film into greatness is the absolutely pitch-perfect lucid performance by Gabin.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
The pity of it all seems slightly forced, the melodramatics too obvious.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The screenplay is by Jacques Prevert, the most accomplished dialogist of the period, and the famous sets, with their overtones of German expressionism, are by Alexander Trauner.
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