French Film Noir: “The Perils of Coupling” Double Feature

You’re invited to a double feature of French noir films. Two films from the end of the previous decade help identify and define the stylistic and thematic shifts to come in the 50s. Director André Cayatte takes a fist-in-glove approach to the romantic undercurrents in Poetic Realism and creates a unique “last gasp” for that fabled cinematic approach.