Le Silence de la Mer (1949)

Date	User	Rating
Jul 30, 2022	sellis	88 _83rd
Masterful direction and storytelling. For someone so close to the material presented, he demonstrates the maturity of a veteran filmmaker in his debut. Kind of incredible how restrained and detailed the film is all at once.
Jan 27, 2022	oskarhu	77 _54th
Driven almost entirely by mood which both enriches and inhibits the impression this film leaves.
Nov 05, 2021	PUNQ	70 _96th
Probable one of the most subtle Nazi tales put on screen. More a philosophical and silent feel to this home occupation. Designed to make you think. And it does.
Feb 03, 2021	LarsVonTrier	3 _72nd
For me this is Melville's best. His other works where he wandered into the worlds of heists and gangsters did not interest me in the least. Leon Morin was good too.
Oct 03, 2020	peyrin	65 _42nd
You can definitely see how Melville would go on to be one of the greats in noir, but the script is a bit too novel-esque for his sparse style. The book itself is kinda awkward politically - fascism is bad because it ruins culture? Might not have your priorities straight there.
Oct 14, 2016	glumpy_99	84 _70th
Quiet, contained WWII drama hinges mostly on Vernon's devastating performance -- the extent to which he is a true party member vs victim of circumstance 'making the best of it' is an intriguing ambiguity which keeps the film ticking beyond it's overly artificial and contrived set-up -- the 'silent treatment' seems overdone and unconvincing, and overuse of droning narration from Robian robs some scenes of their inherent power.
Nov 10, 2014	Nathan S	5 _93rd
Don't be fooled by the guise of civility; fascism is, at the very least, to be excluded from civil discourse. Even if the prose is elegant, it may be redundant against such succinct imagery. The actors are deliberate, Bressonian, accentuated under deep textures of light: pale snowscapes, a flickering fireplace, the long cast of a Nazi's shadow - naive and sincere though he may individually be - the specter of fascism ever-present behind him. It's reminiscent of the most expressive silent films.
Sep 19, 2013	glm01	89 _97th
88.500
May 19, 2013	Henrik	80 _80th
The silent treatment at its finest.
May 07, 2012	glm	87 _85th
87.000
Aug 14, 2007	MartinTeller	63 _22nd
Not much to say. It really left no impression on me at all. It's okay, I guess.

Average Percentile 65.83% from 232 Ratings