The Moment of Truth

1952 [FRENCH]

Drama

1
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 425 425

Director

Jean Delannoy Photo
Jean Delannoy

Top cast

Simone Paris Photo
Simone Paris as Mony - l'amie de Madeleine
Michèle Morgan Photo
Michèle Morgan as Madeleine Richard
Jean Gabin Photo
Jean Gabin as Le docteur Pierre Richard
Walter Chiari Photo
Walter Chiari as Un client du cabaret
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1000.08 MB
986*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 1
1.81 GB
1480*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by adverts 7 / 10

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Reviewed by brogmiller 7 / 10

L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante.

The postwar years were not the greatest for Jean Gabin but his renaissance eventually came courtesy of Jacques Becker. During those years, whatever the material or script Gabin was such a consummate professional that he never once turned in, as far as I am aware, a 'couldn't care less' performance. Here he is reunited with Michele Morgan with whom he had previously worked on three films. By all accounts they 'clicked' whilst making the iconic 'Quai des Brumes' and their obvious fondness for each other is evident here. He plays a dedicated doctor and she the 'neglected' wife who seeks solace in the arms of a painter, superbly played by Daniel Gélin. His character in most walks of life would be considered unhinged but being an artist he is of course just 'temperamental'. Whilst in his studio she notices on the wall a photograph of the poet Apollinaire and they proceed to recite together his beautiful 'Under the Mirabeau Bridge'.This scene is wonderfully done and is probably the highlight of the film. In the final scene husband and wife part with the words 'See you soon' and she watches from the window as he takes their son to school. A reconciliation is imminent but things can things never again be quite the same. Delannoy's direction is immaculate and the three leads so effective that the fates of their characters concern us.
Reviewed by pierrealix 8 / 10

the "qualité francaise at its best"

Morgan and Gabin where the mythical heroes of Marcel Carné's "quai des brumes"paragon of the pre-war poetic movies..(-you have beautiful eyes you know....-kiss me)..15 years later they're back...Morgan is 35 and one of the most beautiful Women of Paris..Gabin is 50 and plays a doctor..we are far from the lost souls of the 1939 movie...he discovers that she's untrue to him (with Daniel Gelin,the french answer to early Brando)...will she ruin her cosy "bourgeois" life to escape with a pennyless artist ?.....Everything is fautless..the direction of actors,the scenario,their actings,the settings....its the "qualite francaise" that dominates the 50s and which will be blown off by Resnais and the "Novelle Vague" in 59.
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