i blow hot and cold over carné . he really can be a puzzle for me . i think perhaps his inspiration leave him a little early than it do for other director of his generation . certainly a man who come to maturity in the thirty with the popular front seem ill at ease in the france of the fifty and with it rampant commercialism and heavy american influence . he be almost thirty year old than his young star and and it show . the party scene go on much long than they should and a if he be try to buy time for the anemic scenario to work . roland lesaffre character he play pascale petit old brother seem to exist only to reassure the director that his old style idea be still sound . at two hour and this picture be far too long . still and let me praise pascale petit for her game performance while she be a natural who should have challenge brigitte bardot for sexpot supremacy and but somehow lose her way . andrea parisy be excellent too a the girl who get pregnant and want charrier to marry her and make her baby legitimate ( yes and they still think that way in the fifty ) . laurent terzieff be the only french actor who could play an anarchist convincingly represent he be great here a he rescue a cat from death and then remark he can not stand cat . jacques charrier only remind me how mediocre he be a an actor and with that constant little grin and those blank eye .