Immerse in this three-day festival that celebrates French noir in Mumbai

Updated On: 28 October, 2023 09:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Devashish Kamble

A three-day print and film rendezvous in the city guides participants into the shadows of the dark genre

Michel Bussi (centre) at the La Fabrique du Suspens event this year

The impact of film noir on cinema in this city is indisputable. Whether it’s CID (1956), which opens with a montage of hands clutching telephones and silhouetted figures whispering “It’s me,” or the way Guru Dutt’s directorial, Pyaasa (1957) plays with shadows and light to intensify the mystery of the plot and evoke fear, pain, and suspense in its characters, noir as a style has had a longstanding presence in the city. The return of the second edition of Noir in Mumbai, a celebration of the legacy of French noir literature and cinema, takes on added significance given the deep roots the genre has in France, where the term was coined in the 1940s.

Participants solve clues during an investigation last year