Ep. 67 La Nuit du Carrefour

Hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg turn their attention
to one of the most mysterious films from the golden age of Jean
Renoir’s filmmaking career: 1932’s La Nuit du Carrefour. Despite
being championed by André Bazin and described by Jean-Luc Godard as
“the only great French detective film,” this film remains possibly
the most obscure work produced by Renoir in the 1930’s. Adapted
from a book by the punishingly prolific Belgian crime novelist
Georges Simenon, the film serves as the first cinematic depiction
of the author’s wildly popular Inspector Maigret - a character who
appeared in 75 novels and 28 short stories in addition to
innumerable films and tv adaptations. The conversation considers
the strange place of the film in Renoir’s body of work, the synergy
of Simenon and Renoir’s artistic sensibilities, and how to tell who
will be the villain in any given Renoir film just by looking at
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for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas”