Hi Barry,
I liked the weather in this. The situation is serious.
And the quote from Gabin.
Cheers,
Jill
> 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
“Frenc> h
> 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.
auditory presence of the climatic forces brilliantly rendered by Gremillon.
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