STORMY WATERS [REMORQUES]
[via Jean Gremillon & Jacques Prevert]
[“Just catastrophe’s office boy.”--Jean Gabin]
Stop playing the fool--there’s an S.O.S.
The weather’s taking its revenge.
Only joking—-one shouldn’t . . .
ride, report, resign.
Must hook that bastard.
You . . . the situation is serious.
We don’t ask for much.
Anyhow, you’re wasting your time with me;
the Dutchman hooked her.
Eat. He said no!
Remember, the
storm brought me: S.O.S.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 11-2-05 (4:34 pm)
Written during my first viewing of this 1941 film, part of a series “French
Cinema Under The Occupation” curated by the French director Bertrand
Tavernier. Jean Gabin stars as the captain of an ocean-going tugboat based
in Brittany, though he really shares top billing with the visual and
auditory presence of the climatic forces brilliantly rendered by Gremillon.
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