From the outset Gabin comes across as a well-off restless middle-aged man who decides to buy a boat but then lets it stay on the water without giving the skipper any orders; who has a wife but takes an interest in a much younger Marie, who also does not seem to know what she wants, either, seemingly in love with a young man and also with Gabin's aura of wealth; and at the end he seems to get the young girl and lose his wife but he looks unfazed.
Frankly, I could not give a damn about any of the characters in this flick. Gabin keeps giving anyone he meets a piece of his mind, and no one seems to stand up to him, not even Marie (except that she seems to see him as an opportunity to leave her squalid little life in some backwater town near Cherbourg).
Photography is nothing to write home about but it shows a French waterfront town in all its ordinariness, recovering from the recently ended world war, and that is perhaps the single most interesting aspect about this film.
Gabin is always worth watching. When he is silent, his eyes and face say more than any words could. But that is not enough to make LA MARIE DU PORT anything other than a waste of time.
Frankly, I could not give a damn about any of the characters in this flick. Gabin keeps giving anyone he meets a piece of his mind, and no one seems to stand up to him, not even Marie (except that she seems to see him as an opportunity to leave her squalid little life in some backwater town near Cherbourg).
Photography is nothing to write home about but it shows a French waterfront town in all its ordinariness, recovering from the recently ended world war, and that is perhaps the single most interesting aspect about this film.
Gabin is always worth watching. When he is silent, his eyes and face say more than any words could. But that is not enough to make LA MARIE DU PORT anything other than a waste of time.