Panique
Panique is a French film directed by Julien Duvivier, made in 1946 and released in 1947, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance. The screenplay is based on the novel Les Fianailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon. The film was released in the United States as Panic.
The strange and slightly unsettling Monsieur Hire is suspected of a crime. A crowd tracks him down and he seeks escape on the roof of a building.After the war many narratives were spent on some kind of revenge. Marcel Carns Les portes de la nuit, Robert Bressons Les dames du Bois de Boulogne , Georges Lacombes Martin Roumagnac, the harrying of a Jew to his death in Duviviers Panique, and a number of Simenon and Steeman thriller adaptations rife with violence and revenge all of these films attest to a need to project the immediate past on to a different set of narratives that are removed from the immediate arena of guilt although Panique comes uncomfortably close. Dark social realism is to be found in a considerable number of films during the fiveyear period after the end of the war. The films of HenriGeorges Clouzot and Henri Decoin are the most remarkable in this context in their fierce, almost cynical pessimism, but the works of Yves Allgret and Julien Duvivier in that period come close on their heels. ........
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