Wednesday, September 20, 2017

MAIGRET SETS A TRAP to play at the Metrograph

October 20-26
One-Week Revival Engagement



Jean Gabin as Georges Simenon's Legendary Detective
Directed by Jean Dellanoy

Beginning Friday October 20, Metrograph will present a one-week revival run of Maigret Sets a Trap. For fans of French film noir, it’s a match made in heaven: Jean Gabin (La BĂȘte Humaine, French Cancan), in the full stoic splendor of his late 1950s comeback, brings his signature seen-it-all sangfroid to Georges Simenon’s famous fictional detective, Jules Maigret, whose vacation plans are spoiled by a serial killer stalking women in the Fourth Arrondissement. Jean Delannoy, though frequently overlooked, gets across both a pungent feel for lower depths Paris, with supremely elegant camera movements, while crafting a startling policier, surprisingly brutal for it’s time. Maigret Sets a Trap, which has slipped through the cracks of film history, and is extraordinarily deserving of rediscovery.

Trailer: https://www.kinolorber.com/film/maigretsetsatrap

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