Le Corbeau (Criterion Collection) (Blu ray) [USA]

C.C. 95

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Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writers: Louis Chavance, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Starring: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Pierre Larquey, Héléna Manson
  • France
  • 1943
  • 91 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.37:1
  • French
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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.

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SPECIAL FEATURES​

  • New 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Interview with filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
  • Excerpts from The Story of French Cinema by Those Who Made It: Grand Illusions 1939–1942, a 1975 documentary featuring director Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Alan Williams
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