Directed by:
Henri-Georges ClouzotCinematography:
Nicolas HayerComposer:
Tony AubinCast:
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Bertin, Louis Seigner, Sylvie (more)VOD (1)
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A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a provincial French town, exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community’s calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, this film by Henri-Georges Clouzot was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the country’s liberation. But some—including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre—recognized the powerful subtext to Clouzot’s anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable and worked to rehabilitate his directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turns an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem. (Criterion)
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Henri-Georges Clouzot is one of the best French directors, not just of his time but of filmography in general. He has a style that can captivate, and it doesn't matter if it's a thriller, a crime film, or a pure horror film. It pulls the viewer in and lets him go only at the very end, sometimes almost spitting him out.
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