Jean Gabin is a successful businessman in Cherboug with a hotel, a thriving restaurant on the ground floor, and a movie theater next door. He's also got a live-in girlfriend, Blanchette Brunoy. He takes her to the small port she grew up in for her father's funeral, and meets her sister, Nicole Courcel, who's working at a local inn. She's a solemn, sullen girl with a dissatisfied, jealous boyfriend. Gabin flirts with her; he flirts with all pretty women and sometimes sleeps with them to assert his independence . But as Mlle Brunoy talks about moving on to Paris, Mlle Courcel talks about coming to Cherbourg, and Gabin talks about sailing to Tahiti.
Who is chasing what or who?
Marcel Carne directs from a novel by Simenon and a script by Marcel Carne, which means it's either an incredibly cynical movie which Duvivier directs without a hint that all of this is not real and desperate and important to the characters. Or Carne is being romantic. Or maybe both or neither.
Who is chasing what or who?
Marcel Carne directs from a novel by Simenon and a script by Marcel Carne, which means it's either an incredibly cynical movie which Duvivier directs without a hint that all of this is not real and desperate and important to the characters. Or Carne is being romantic. Or maybe both or neither.