Film Noir Forever

We at the Bijou consider ourselves pretty tough customers. Oh sure, maybe not as hard-boiled as the egg salad in that dive of a deli off 2nd Avenue—where you gotta make them toast the bread twice and they never give you your pickle—but flinty nevertheless. Doing a post on film noir seemed like a cinch. Only we got in too far, too fast, and too late we realized that defining film noir is like