87 minute running time … the “poetic realism” movie that bridges the gap between German expressionism of the 1920s with American film noir of the 1940s … it has crime, violence, romance, fatalism, doomed love … all those noir elements and the shadowy lighting, but with a French twist of philosophizing and, amusingly, an artist drowning himself in the sea, people come and go, tu vois? Again, this isn’t a super entertaining movie and it’s really only for film history snobs.