Les amants de Bras-Mort

1951
1h 35m

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Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs... Read allJean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" pro... Read allJean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy i... Read all

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Sailing on a dried-up branch.

The bargemen world can produce masterpieces : Jean Vigo 's "l'atalante " , André Antoine's overlooked "l'hirondelle et la mésange" (1920)and Lachman's forgotten "la belle marinière" bear this out .

This one suffers from a desultory script ,without strong central characters :it pits the bargemen who struggle hard to get by against the wealthy owners of several barges whose stranglehold on the "market" threatens them:the title means "the lovers of dried-up branch" .

Is it better to marry a wealthy a young man of means and lead a bourgeois life or to stay on the barge and slave away? For that matter , neither Nicole Courcel's character nor Line Noro's is convincing.

I agree with French cinema connoisseur Happytrigger : it's the atmosphere ,the depiction of the environment which count ;trust him to locate the place where this melodrama unfolds.