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Fleeing from his native France, accused murderer Jean Gabin joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. In a strife-torn region of North Africa, he finds solace with Arab beauty Annabella, but a relentless police officer is soon on Gabin's trail, in this compelling and romantic adventure. AKA: "Escape from Yesterday." 96 min. Standard; Soundtrack: French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English. In French with English subtitles.
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During a thick fog, a truck driver picks up a soldier named Jean (Jean Gabin) who has seen his share of tragedy while serving duty in Indochina. But despair is not isolated to battlefields and colonialist incursions into foreign lands. It infects everyone this army deserter encounters after the truck driver deposits him in La Havre. Jean finds the port town swarming with gangsters, murderers, morally wounded men and women and a sense that humanity is a doomed race.
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LA BÊTE HUMAINE (1938, The Human Beast), starring Jean Gabin, was based on Emile Zola's novel. The title of the film was misleading - there are no clear villains or heroes in Renoir's world, and the locomotive was perhaps the most important character of the story. To learn about railroads, Gabin drove the train several times from Le Havre to Paris. LA RÈGLE DU JEU (1939) is considered Renoir's last masterpiece from the 1930s. However, it was a great commercial failure in its time; cut by Vichy censors and banned by Nazis. When the film was shown in July 1939 at the Colisée many people wanted to destroy the seats, and the director received plenty of insults.
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After the Armistice, Jean returned to Les Collettes, where he, Dedée and Claude started to work as potters, Auguste having had a studio and an oven installed in an outhouse. Though he continued painting till hours before his death, Auguste Renoir was in continual pain and declining health. He died in December 1919. Dedée and Jean were married a few weeks later. They continued their work in ceramics, even after moving closer to Paris, near the forest of Fontainebleau, following the birth of their son Alain in October 1921. Gabrielle and her husband (the American painter Conrad Slade) were living nearby, and soon Paul Cézanne Junior and his family joined them, buying a property nearby.
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Francois (Jean Gabin) sits locked in his room, a gun in his hand, having just committed the murder. As he contemplates his fate, he reflects as to how events conspired to bring his life to this conclusion – starting with falling in love with a young florist whose attentions are soon distracted by the arrival of a Machiavellian dog trainer Valentin….
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