“A great masterpiece”: rated 4.2 out of 5, this is Jean Gabin’s best film! : Entertainment

With 95 films and a series of timeless classics, Jean Gabin remains one of the major figures of French cinema, a career that continues to shine well after his death in 1976.

Among his legendary roles, The Quai des Mignes occupies a central place and is being released in theaters this Wednesday, December 17.

Directed by Marcel Carné in 1938 and adapted from the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan, the film marks the filmmaker’s third collaboration with Jacques Prévert. Gabin plays Jean, a deserter who comes to Le Havre to find an escape to elsewhere. While waiting for a boat, he finds refuge at the end of the docks and meets Nelly, a mysterious young woman whom he decides to protect. Between misfits, thugs and thwarted passions, the couple’s destiny falls into a spiral as dark as it is poetic – and offers Gabin one of his most cult lines.

This revival is an opportunity to discover the highest rated film in Jean Gabin’s filmography by AlloCiné spectators.

The highest rated film is…

Among the great classics of French cinema, A Monkey in Winter occupies a special place. Directed by Henri Verneuil in 1962, the film brings together two generations of actors: Jean Gabin, a major pre-war figure, and Jean-Paul Belmondo, revealed a few years earlier in Breathless.

Gabin plays a hotelier in a Normandy seaside resort, determined – at least in appearance – to keep the promise he made to his wife not to touch alcohol again. The balance falters when Gabriel Fouquet, a young advertising executive played by Belmondo, arrives, whose energy and torments awaken old temptations…

With more than 7,700 ratings and nearly 226 reviews on AlloCiné, A Monkey in Winter has an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, placing itself at the top of the actor’s filmography.

Viewers’ opinions

NeoLain from Club Allociné (5/5): “A monkey in winter, this film where Jean Gabin and Belmondo show us a peak of ease in terms of texts, performances and the story of two characters where they exchange so many memories of the past. A treat where the feeling of freedom floods them and they take us from start to finish with them. Great art in every way.”

Xavi_de_Paris from Club Allociné (5/5): “A classic of French cinema. Jean Gabin and Belmondo, sacred monsters of French cinema, display here all their talent, and their presence in front of a camera, forming a funny and touching duo at the same time. The context of a small village in Normandy, the depth of the dialogues carried by these two immense actors, and the bittersweet touch on the part of the director, make this film a little lesson in cinema, for everyone movie buff who loves old films. To see and rewatch.”

Bobmorane63 (5/5): “1962, Henri Verneuil brings together two actors from different generations, it will be their only collaboration in their respective careers, Jean Gabin who responds to Jean-Paul Belmondo with a screenplay by Michel Audiard!!!! “A Monkey in Winter” is a funny and touching work about the meeting in Normandy of a hotel manager formerly from China and a traveler who loves Spain, dancing Flamenco, which we wonder about. question what is he doing in the North West and a friendship will be born between the two men, very friendly and consuming a lot of wine.

We leave this film with incredible joy, especially the final fireworks which are an anthology piece and which make you smile. We can consider this feature film as a great classic of French cinema, the osmosis of complicity between Gabin and Belmondo works wonderfully well. Also note a very good performance by Suzanne Flon, a not very popular actress who deserves attention. Cult.”

Teofoot29 (5/5): “Such a film can only leave one nostalgic, nostalgic for an exceptional Gabin accompanied by his famous rants, nostalgic for the duo he forms with a perfect Belmondo, nostalgic for Audiard’s fabulous dialogues and many other things…

The story is very touching, I would even say moving, of a rapid friendship of a young man who comes to look for his daughter whom he has never seen and of an old man who, overcome by old age, tastes his last bursts of drunkenness. The ending is even philosophically explicit. I end by saying that this film is one of the best French films I have seen. A great masterpiece, both funny and moving.”

Falex (5/5): “The meeting of two actors with exceptional presence: Gabin and Belmondo under the direction of Henri Verneuil all served by dialogues from Audiard, it smells like a masterpiece. And that’s the case, this film is a little gem, a hymn to travel and above all to intoxication.

Belmondo and Gabin burst onto the screen and we impatiently await each of their confrontations, especially since they are served by the dialogues of an Audiard in great form. The music and the supporting roles (Roquevert, Flon…) are perfect and help to magnify the whole. Great cinema.”