Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

writers_reign The movie business in both Hollywood and France certainly extracted rich pickings from the French Foreign Legion, from Morocco to Beau Geste to Le Grand Jeu, La Bandera et al. Gabin himself was at home in North Africa having spent the entire running time of Pepe Le Moko there and apparently not learning his lesson because here he is again falling for the same femme fatale in the shape of Mireille Balin, his nemesis in both Pepe and here. Trivia buffs may find it interesting that Jean Gremillon studied music at the Scuola Cantorum in Paris at approximately the same time as Cole Porter though I can't, with my hand on my heart, claim this effected Guele d'Amour one way or the other. Gremillon certainly had his moment in the sun - Remorques, La Ciel est a vous - but his name never quite blazed as fiercely as his great contemporaries Duvivier, Carne,Feyder etc and was forgotten more easily and unfairly. This is a fine film exploring a hackneyed theme with fresh eyes and should be sought out.

evening1 Jean Gabin is strong in this tale of a handsome man who could have any woman he wants but chooses a psychopath.Like a moth drawn to a flame that he knows will destroy him, Barrouche pursues the kept woman played by Mireille Balin (whose allure I cannot understand -- neither in "Pepe le Moko" nor in this far less powerful work).I enjoyed the scenes in which Gabin gives a piece of his mind to Madeleine, her pimp-like mother, and her snooty servant. I liked less that his nickname translates as "lady killer"...you can see where this plot is heading from a mile away.The final frame of this film is quite poignant and surprising.I liked this movie best for the psychological complexity of Gabin, an intensely attractive man who looks a bit like Kenneth Branagh on a really good day. Non, they just don't make stars like him anymore...

palmiro This film was unique on a couple of counts: 1) it clearly sanctions a crime of passion as something that does not cry out for retributive justice--it elicits sympathy for the perpetrator of the crime much more than for the victim; 2) there is a kind of male bonding between Gabin and his doctor "copain" which suggests that friendship between men can attain a measure of intimacy never possible in their relations with women--and this without a hint of homosexual eroticism. Maybe it was France of the Popular Front that made it all possible.

dbdumonteil Nowadays,when critics speak of Gremillon,they often mention "remorques","lumière d'été" "le ciel est à vous" (which ran into difficulties at the end of the war as "le corbeau" ,but on opposite grounds:Clouzot's work was deemed too black when Gremillon's was judged too "white" ,too "pétainiste".)"gueule d'amour" is rarely talked about.So "gueule d'amour' is unfairly dismissed as "melodrama".Sure it is,but ,as Stahl,Sirk,Minelli and countless others have shown in America,melodrama is a valuable genre.Gabin, a good-looking legionnaire,is under a bitch's spell.This woman (Balin) dreams of luxury,abetted by an unscrupulous hateful mother.So she stalks rich preys,and Gabin,even if she loves him ,is nothing more than a pastime for her.The best scenes deal with Balin in one of her rich lover's flat ,with her despicable mama who acts as if she's at home,and Gabin's helpless attempts to make her comprehend what true love means.But it's too late,she's rotten to the core.The last part is less convincing:the M.O. of Gabin's former regiment tells his mate he's found love with a wonderful woman.Guess who she is?That's the biggest flaw of the movie and the ending is too predictable.By and large,"Gueule d'amour" is an absorbing movie which influenced Yves Allégret .The mother character is close to Jane Marken's in"manèges" (1949).Spiteful gossips will tell it's the same misogyny.