Casque d'Or
classified 12A SPlease note: This was screened in Dec 2022
Simone Signoret (Diabolique, Room at the Top) is at her sensual best in this romantic classic of doomed romance, Jacques Becker’s (Le Trou, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi) tale of small-time hoodlums and petty criminals set early 1900s Paris.
When gangster's moll Marie (Signoret) falls for reformed criminal Manda (Serge Reggiani), their passion incites an underworld rivalry that leads inexorably to treachery and tragedy.
Casque d’Or is an elegant take on the seedy Parisian underbelly during the Belle Epoque and sits between French cinema’s golden age of Jean Renoir and the radical shift of the Nouvelle Vague. A poignant crime story lifted to new heights by Becker’s fluent lyricism, sensuous black-and-white cinematography and the characters' emotional complexity, Casque dOr is romantic masterpiece restored and back in cinemas for its 70th birthday.