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Casque d'or

Casque d'or (Golden Marie)

1952

Jacques Becker

Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières ...

7.7

4,187

Drama. Romance In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man Roland belongs to the jealous kind, and Leca himself has his eye on her. A story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.

	Author	Review
United States	David Mermelstein The Wall Street Journal	"A deeply felt Belle-Époque period piece"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"An absolute masterwork"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Becker's low-key masterpiece slowly reveals the price of misplaced loyalty"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A radiant Simone Signoret dominates Jacques Becker's 1952 film (...) A turning point for French cinema"	POS
United States	Variety	"Film is an excellent recreation of a colorful French period. Brisk in style and full of pictorial interest"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"This elegant masterwork is a glowingly nostalgic evocation of the Paris of the Impressionists (...) One of the great movie romances"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"[A] glorious tragic melodrama (...) Seductive and shattering"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle Houston Chronicle	"One of the great virtues of the film is the way that Becker’s vision writes no one off, including the villains. He understands why people do the things they do"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A unmissable classic (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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