Description:A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly 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 VichA mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly 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, the Catholic Church, and was banned after the 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 Clouzot’s directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures a spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem. ~ from Criterion... (more)(less)
Release date : 28 September 1943 UPC: 037429186022
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So, no this isn't a horror film staring Vincent Price. It is complex and dark film about a town terrorized by a poison pen writer.
I watched the Criterion dvd, then watched the special features. The interview with Bertand Tarvernier, director of Coup de Torchon was extreamly informative and gave a lot of insight into the film. Also, into the early years of French Cinema.
The excerpts from a 1975 documentary "The Story of French Cinema" was interesting but on the whole rather disappointing a"
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"We live with a thin veneer of civility in society, that can be torn way with lies, or truths.
Tags: France, Jesus Christ, Informant, Friend, Mob Violence, Postal Theft, Thief, Medical Dictionary, French Noir, Bursar, Village, Morality, Cupping Glass, Festival, Death Of Baby, Cuckold, Keyhole, Chase, Rumor. Wikipedia"
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"Day 2 - Obscure film discovery. I would have never watched this film unless...
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diabolical dr voodoo has compiled the most exhaustive list of horror films I've ever seen, so when I was creating my own "Horror favorites" lists for each decade I used his list as a reference. Not only did it remind me of a few I've seen and hadn't thought of in a while, but it provided me with a slew of films I hadn't heard of to check out. Le Corbeau was among them, a Fre"
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