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Le Corbeau (1943) (b/w, Criterion Collection)

English · Blu-ray

US Version | Region code A
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A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the liberation. But some - including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre - recognized the powerful subtext of Clouzot's anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable, and worked to rehabilitate his directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures a spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turns an occupied French town into a twentieh-century Salem.

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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actor Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
Label Criterion Collection
 
Genre Drama
Crime
Thriller
Content Blu-ray
Publication date 20.09.2022
Edition b/w, Criterion Collection
Audio French (Dolby Digital)
Subtitles English
Screen 16/9
Year of production 1943
Original title Le Corbeau
Version US Version
Region code A
 

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  • Chef-d'oeuvre

    Written on 18. September 2011 by Ariane.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Film-symbole du cinéma d'Occupation, par l'immense scandale qu'il engendra, le Corbeau est une oeuvre inoubliable, pour moi la meilleure de Clouzot - ce qui n'est pas peu dire.
    Il est rare de trouver un film de cette époque à ce point noir et cynique, où aucun personnage n'attire réellement notre sympathie : la critique sociale est au vitriol.
    Intemporel et fascinant !

  • nul

    Written on 04. April 2010 by definitely not a french.
    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    nul à chier

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