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Tumultes (1932) Robert Siodmak; Charles Boyer, Florelle, Clara Tambour
Tumultes (1932) Robert Siodmak; Charles Boyer, Florelle, Clara Tambour
 
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In French with English subtitles.

Once released from prison, Ralph Schwartz (Charles Boyer) doesn't waste any time organizing another bank raid with his band of crooks. His wife Ania is less keen to see him: she's started an affair with another man, a photographer named Gustave. Oblivious of Ania's infidelity, Ralph moves back into his apartment, having adopted a juvenile criminal, Willi, who, in his turn, falls for Ania's charms...

Tumultes is instantly recognizable as the work of Robert Siodmak, one of the first film directors to appropriate the German expressionist style for the thriller genre, thereby effectively inventing film noir. With its deeply pessimistic view of human relationships, portrayal of easy seduction, betrayal and infidelity, it is a film that must have shocked the sensibilities of its original 1930s audience, and indeed, in a more cynical age, it still makes pretty grim viewing. Unusually, there isn't a single sympathetic character in this film, and there is no real moral or sense of “natural justice”. Rather, the characters appear to be self-motivated soulless animals, victims of their own bestial impulses, imprisoned in their own circumstances, unable to even imagine a nobler kind of life.


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