Quai des Orfèvres (Clouzot's Quai des orfèvres) (1947)

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" Notes: I have just discovered that, after WWII, Henri-George Clouzot wasn’t allowed to make another movie following the release of ‘Le corbeau’, a movie which was very quickly criticized in France for the way it portrayed the French people very negatively. After 4 long years, following a very long fight from his defenders, Clouzot was able to get back to work coming up with this feature which was once again a massive critical and commercial success. Basically, you had most of Clouzot’s"

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" Notes: I have just discovered that, after WWII, Henri-George Clouzot wasn’t allowed to make another movie following the release of ‘Le corbeau’, a movie which was very quickly criticized in France for the way it portrayed the French people very negatively. After 4 long years, following a very long fight from his defenders, Clouzot was able to get back to work coming up with this feature which was once again a massive critical and commercial success. Basically, you had most of Clouzot’s"

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"The world of Quai des Orfèvres is a licentious cesspool driven primarily by panic, greed, and jealousy. The rain-soaked streets of Paris, filled with liars and crooks and painted in deep, angular shadows, have never looked less inviting. The corpse at the center of the film’s story is that of a humpbacked smut peddler whom no one will miss, which is one explanation for why Henri-Georges Clouzot is focused less on the whodunnit surrounding the murder than in the psychological interplay between"