• La nuit du carrefour

SUBJECTS

Diamonds -- Drama, Murder -- Investigation -- France -- Drama, Narcotics dealers -- France -- Drama

La nuit du carrefour

(Night at the crossroads), (La nuit du carrefour)

Archival Print

featuring

Pierre Renoir, Winna Winfried, Georges Terof, Jean Mitry,

Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret first appeared onscreen in this rarely seen 1932 thriller, directed by none other than Jean Renoir and starring Renoir’s brother Pierre. Made in collaboration with Simenon, the film depicts a diamond merchant’s death at a lonely crossroads near Paris, and the investigation that follows. Renoir concerns himself not with plot, though, but with creating an atmosphere of suffocating dread “thick enough to slice, eerie and haunted” (John Wakeman). For Jean-Luc Godard, La nuit du carrefour was “the only great French detective film, and, indeed, the greatest French film adventure.”

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Jean Renoir
  • Georges Simenon
Based On
  •  the novel by Georges Simenon

Cinematographer
  • Marcel Lucien
  • Georges Asselin
Language
  • French
  • with English electronic titles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • 75 mins
Source
  • British Film Institute
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Jean Renoir: Cinéma de toujours (program), Cannes Film Festival, 1994

La nuit du carrefour (program note), 1976

Jean Renoir (program), National Film Theatre (London, England), 1975

Jean Renoir -- excerpt (book excerpt), Cinema d'Aujourd-hui, Pierre Leprochon, 1967

La nuit du carrefour (credits), The Museum of Modern Art, New York

La nuit du carrefour (synopsis), Pacific Film Archive

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