When people think of film noir, they usually associate it with 1940s and 1950s Hollywood. Yet, the origins of film noir are relatively easy to find in European cinema in earlier decades, such as German Expressionist cinema in the 1920s and French Poetic Realism in the 1930s. One of the most celebrated examples of the latter is *Le Quai des brumes* (“The Quay of Fog”), 1938 crime drama directed by Marcel Carné, bette…






