2023
The Criterion Channel
1 h 34 m

2023
The Criterion Channel
1 h 34 m

Summary Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her ...

Directed By: Jean Grémillon

Written By: André Beucler, Charles Spaak

2023
The Criterion Channel
1 h 34 m

2023
The Criterion Channel
1 h 34 m

Lady Killer (Gueule d’Amour)

Name: Lady Killer (Gueule d’Amour)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 2023-08-04
Duration: 1 min 34 s
Rating: 91
Cast: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare, Henri Poupon, Jean Aymé

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 5 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Jean Grémillon

Written By: André Beucler, Charles Spaak

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Slant Magazine

Jul 24, 2023

Exquisite and disturbing, Gueule d’Amour is still one of the screen’s least seen masterpieces.

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Chicago Reader

Jul 24, 2023

Gremillon seems the master of every style he attempts, but his genius lies in the smooth linking of those various styles; the film seems to evolve as it unfolds, changing its form in imperceptible stages.

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The New York Times

Sep 27, 2023

Grémillon supplements the bleak fatalism and noirish intrigue with bursts of quivering melodrama that enrich and expand the story beyond its ostensible fatal-attraction framework.

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The New Yorker

Aug 4, 2023

Not every rarity is a revelation, but Lady Killer strikes me as the real deal.

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The New York Times

Jul 24, 2023

Like other love stories of the period, Gueule d'Amour has a melodramatic surface, yet it hits a nerve in anyone who has ever spent too much time thinking about the wrong person.

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Production Company L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne (ACE), Universum Film (UFA)

Release Date Aug 4, 2023

Duration 1 h 34 m

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Lady Killer (Gueule d’Amour)

Top Cast

Jean Gabin

Lucien Bourrache, 'Gueule d'Amour'

Mireille Balin

Madeleine

Pierre Etchepare

Le patron de l'hôtel

Henri Poupon

Monsieur Cailloux

Jean Aymé

Le valet de chambre

Pierre Magnier

Le commandant

Marguerite Deval

Madame Courtois

René Lefèvre

René

Jane Marken

Madame Cailloux

Paulette Noizeux

L'épouse au face à main

André Siméon

Le patron du restaurant

Pierre Labry

L'imprimeur

Lucien Dayle

Un client

Louis Florencie

Le dîneur

Paul Fournier

Un client

André Carnège

Le capitaine

Maurice Baquet

Le soldat malade

Frédéric Mariotti

Le cantonnier

Bill Bocket

Jules

Robert Casa

Monsieur Moreau

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