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Bar Henri

Bar Henri

When Gil Jourdan first makes an appearance, as a young lawyer anxious to make a name for himself, he already has a secretary (Queue-de-Cerise), but has neither money nor an office. His gang’s favourite haunt is “Chez Henry”, where copious amounts of the house red wash down plates of boudin-pommes-purée. As is often the case in “Gil Jourdan”, the heightened ambience seems larger than life. And yet, though every detail of Tillieux’s Paris rings with authenticity, its author (a native of Huy, as Belgian as Belgian can be) has carefully reinvented it in every detail. This image is suffused with the magic realism of Alexandre Traubner’s sets, and seems graced by the presence of Carné and Prévert…

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