At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
Acting
Signoret's Marie burns the screen with sensual fatalism.
Cinematography
Becker's shadow-drenched Belle Époque is achingly gorgeous.
Direction
Becker builds inevitability like a tightening noose.
Director
Jacques Becker
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