Night at the Crossroads

Night at the Crossroads
Title card from the film
Directed by	Jean Renoir
Written by	Jean Renoir Georges Simenon(novel)
Starring	Pierre Renoir Georges Térof Winna Winifried Georges Koudria Dignimont
Cinematography	Georges Asselin Marcel Lucien
Editing by	Marguerite Renoir
Distributed by	Compagnie Franco Coloniale Cinématographique
Release date(s)	18 April 1932
Running time	75 min.
Country	France
Language	French Dutch

Night at the Crossroads (French: La Nuit du Carrefour) is a 1932 film by Jean Renoir based on the novel of the same title (known in English as Maigret at the Crossroads) by Georges Simenon and starring Renoir's brother Pierre Renoir as Simenon's popular detective, Inspector Maigret.

The French director Jacques Becker, then apprenticed to Renoir, worked as assistant director and production manager on the film.

Reputation and influence

Often cited as being Jean Renoir's least well-known sound film^[1], Night at the Crossroads has nonetheless maintained a very strong critical reputation. In an article republished as part of André Bazin's book on Renoir, the French New Wave critic and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard described it as being "Renoir's most mysterious film"^[2] and "the only great French detective movie--in fact, the greatest of all adventure movies."^[2]

At a symposium on the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr held at Facets Multimedia on September 16, 2007, American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum mentioned that Tarr's then-new feature, The Man from London (also based on a novel by Georges Simenon), was influenced by Night at the Crossroads.^[3]

References

1. ^ Allmovie: La Nuit du Carrefour
2. ^ ^{a b} Bazin, André, Jean Renoir (1992), Da Capo Press, p. 231, ISBN 0306804654
3. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Discussion. Facets Multimedia. Symposium: Béla Tarr. Facets Cinematheque, Chicago, Illinois. 16 September 2007.

External links

• Night at the Crossroads at the Internet Movie Database
• Night at the Crossroads at AllRovi