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Gueule d'amour

  • 1937
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  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Gueule d'amour (1937)
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Soldier Lucien meets elegant Madeleine one night in Cannes. Lovestruck, he follows her to Paris after he is discharged. Their love affair begins anew, but eventually runs cold and he returns... Read allSoldier Lucien meets elegant Madeleine one night in Cannes. Lovestruck, he follows her to Paris after he is discharged. Their love affair begins anew, but eventually runs cold and he returns to Orange in the south of France. She follows.Soldier Lucien meets elegant Madeleine one night in Cannes. Lovestruck, he follows her to Paris after he is discharged. Their love affair begins anew, but eventually runs cold and he returns to Orange in the south of France. She follows.

  • Director
    • Jean Grémillon
  • Writers
    • André Beucler
    • Charles Spaak
  • Stars
    • Jean Gabin
    • Mireille Balin
    • Pierre Etchepare
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    837
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jean Grémillon
    • Writers
      • André Beucler
      • Charles Spaak
    • Stars
      • Jean Gabin
      • Mireille Balin
      • Pierre Etchepare
    • 10User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
    • 91Metascore
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    Jean Gabin
    Jean Gabin
    • Lucien Bourrache, 'Gueule d'Amour'
    Mireille Balin
    Mireille Balin
    • Madeleine
    Pierre Etchepare
    Pierre Etchepare
    • Le patron de l'hôtel
    Henri Poupon
    • Monsieur Cailloux
    Jean Aymé
    • Le valet de chambre
    • (as Jean Ayme)
    Pierre Magnier
    Pierre Magnier
    • Le commandant
    Marguerite Deval
    • Madame Courtois
    René Lefèvre
    René Lefèvre
    • René
    Jane Marken
    Jane Marken
    • Madame Cailloux
    • (as Jeanne Marken)
    Paulette Noizeux
    • L'épouse au face à main
    André Siméon
    André Siméon
    • Le patron du restaurant
    • (as Siméon)
    Pierre Labry
    Pierre Labry
    • L'imprimeur
    Lucien Dayle
    • Un client
    Louis Florencie
    Louis Florencie
    • Le dîneur
    • (as Florencie)
    Paul Fournier
    • Un client
    André Carnège
    • Le capitaine
    Maurice Baquet
    Maurice Baquet
    • Le soldat malade
    Frédéric Mariotti
    • Le cantonnier
    • (as Mariotti)
    • Director
      • Jean Grémillon
    • Writers
      • André Beucler
      • Charles Spaak
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    7planktonrules

    Very well acted...just not all that pleasant to watch.

    When the film begins, Lucien (Jean Gabin) is a carefree soldier who loves the women and they sure love him. However, when he meets Madeleine (Mireille Balin), the carefree lover is instantly hooked. So, when his enlistment is over, he heads to Paris where Madeleine lives in order to woo her.

    When he arrives in Paris, Madelein's behavior is odd. When she's with him, she tells him how much she adores him. But often, when he's supposed to meet her, she doesn't show. In other words, her words and her actions aren't compatible...but Lucien is hooked and again and again he comes back to her like a puppy. Eventually, however, when he is confronted by the man who keeps her, it finally becomes obvious she isn't for Lucien...and he leaves Paris for good. But there's much more...and it's pretty tragic...not a romance by any stretch.

    The acting is THE reason to watch the film. Gabin, in particular, is really good...though he sure doesn't look fabulously sexy as most of the women see him. Perhaps times have changed. As for the story, it's not bad...just don't expect a romance or a film that will leave you happy...it won't!
    dbdumonteil

    An overlooked Gremillon work.

    Nowadays,when critics speak of Gremillon,they often mention "remorques","lumière d'été" "le ciel est à vous" (which ran into difficulties at the end of the war as "le corbeau" ,but on opposite grounds:Clouzot's work was deemed too black when Gremillon's was judged too "white" ,too "pétainiste".)"gueule d'amour" is rarely talked about.

    So "gueule d'amour' is unfairly dismissed as "melodrama".Sure it is,but ,as Stahl,Sirk,Minelli and countless others have shown in America,melodrama is a valuable genre.Gabin, a good-looking legionnaire,is under a bitch's spell.This woman (Balin) dreams of luxury,abetted by an unscrupulous hateful mother.So she stalks rich preys,and Gabin,even if she loves him ,is nothing more than a pastime for her.The best scenes deal with Balin in one of her rich lover's flat ,with her despicable mama who acts as if she's at home,and Gabin's helpless attempts to make her comprehend what true love means.But it's too late,she's rotten to the core.The last part is less convincing:the M.O. of Gabin's former regiment tells his mate he's found love with a wonderful woman.Guess who she is?That's the biggest flaw of the movie and the ending is too predictable.

    By and large,"Gueule d'amour" is an absorbing movie which influenced Yves Allégret .The mother character is close to Jane Marken's in

    "manèges" (1949).Spiteful gossips will tell it's the same misogyny.
    5richardchatten

    Glossy Gallic Soap Opera

    Dashing legionnaire Jean Gabin loses his head over a heartless high maintenance gold-digger played by Mireille Balin. She has no intention of leaving her sugar daddy and it all ends in tears in this glossy star vehicle reuniting the leads of 'Pépé le Moko'. Handsomely mounted and sumptuously photographed by veteran German cameraman Günther Rittau, it looks good but the material scarcely merits the money, talent and care that has gone into its production. The characters are unsympathetic and a thuddingly trite coincidence concerning Gabin's old army buddy René Lefevre is worked into the plot in order to generate a suitably melodramatic conclusion. Gabin's fall from grace because of his infatuation vaguely recalls Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich in 'The Blue Angel', with Balin's immaculately dressed femme fatale more poison maiden than great bitch.
    7gbill-74877

    Loved the leads

    Lady killer meets man killer, and suffers what he's made his past lovers suffer - to be head over heels in love with someone who only wants you some of the time, when convenient. It's a tough story to truly enjoy, and it comes with both an awfully convenient coincidence with his friend and some old school morality judgment meted out against the woman, which was unfortunate. On the positive side, Jean Gabin dials up the emotion and Mireille Balin plays the "kept woman" with breezy seduction and cold pragmatism well. The mother and servant characters also provide some amusing moments in a scene of great tension, and it was in moments like those that the film shined brightest. As for other supporting characters, I think too much is read into his feelings towards his friend, to me it simply reflects another time and culture, and if anything the male camaraderie reinforces the tones of underlying misogyny. Regardless, the way this played out left a bad taste in my mouth, marring an otherwise atmospheric drama.
    wjfickling

    Wonderful directorial excess

    I never heard of this film until I saw it at a recent Gabin retrospective. I loved it, even if it is a case of directorial excess. The film would have been much more subtle if it had ended with Lucian (the Gabin character)returning to Orange and watching the new regiment of soldiers coming in, realizing that he was no longer the "lover boy." But then, it wouldn't have been as much fun.

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    • Release date
      • September 15, 1937 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Germany
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Lady Killer
    • Filming locations
      • Orange, Vaucluse, France
    • Production companies
      • L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne (ACE)
      • Universum Film (UFA)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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