Inspector Gibert gets off to a bad start. Not only does he
mistake an ordinary housewife for a terrorist, but he fails to
recognise the man he is supposed to escort to the
Velodrome. Luckily, Emilien is on hand with Daniel, his
Taxi-driving friend, to save the day. Gibert's next slip up
- a run-in with a Belgian gangster - proves to be more difficult to clear up...
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.