Marcel Carné and Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965) Marcel Carné did not arrive at Three Rooms in Manhattan as a director in search of reinvention. He arrived with a fully formed grammar. By 1965, his career already included Le Quai des brumes (1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), and Les Enfants du paradis (1945), films that had fixed his name to the very idea of poetic realism. The collaboration with Jacques Prévert that defined his pre-war period had long ended, yet the principles remained intact. In