Night at the Crossroads (1932)
The Gist:
This is an early Renoir film, made in the beginning of the sound era, filled with odd film aesthetic choices and strange editing sequences and generally just a hot mess of a film. This makes it, at the same time, a fascinating entry for French cinema, where you can see the rules being broken in a way that would predate Hollywood Film Noir and French New Wave but without the precision of either movement. It follows a detective who solves a murder mystery, and the plot is average at best. Renoir would go on to make far more involving films, this one remains as a standout curiosity into the beginnings of his career (hard to find too).
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