it generally an accepted fact that marcel carné 1936 1946 movie be masterpiece and it consider polite to say that the rest be mediocrity . this be an unfair opinion representat least and two of the latter era be eminently watchable representthérèse raquin and his best post war work and and le tricheurs ( the cheat ) . there a strange evolution from the prevert golden hour to les tricheurs representin le enfants du paradis quai de brumes or le jour se lève and true love be thwart by the villain . in les tricheurs true love do not exist anymore representwe deal with a bunch of young people who believe in nothing while fall in love would be incongruous for this youth . the adult be not the villain at all representmic brother and mother be kind people and but she be beyond their command . very few grown ups appear anyway . during two hour and the character do not stop play around and dance and listen to jazz record ( a music which be not still part of the bourgeois culture ) and and heavily drinking . when two of them discover they care for each others and it will be too late . the cast be rather good and laurent terzieff a an existentialist cynic and andréa parisy a a rich kid be the stand out . on the other hand and pascale petit and mainly jacques charrier ( who marry brigitte bardot the same year a le tricheurs ) do not possess the ambiguity their part ask for . they be all smile and too sweet and to nice to be believable . oddly and les tricheurs be label nouvelle vague . when you know what the priest of this cinema school ( the like of godard ) thought of carné and it really a good joke . but this disenchantment you feel throughout the whole movie be really disturbing .