Le Corbeau (The Criterion Collection)

Name: Le Corbeau (The Criterion Collection)
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By Henri-Georges Clouzot

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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 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. Disc Features New digital transfer, with restored image and sound Video interview with Bertrand Tavernier, director of Coup de torchon Excerpts from The Story of French Cinema by Those Who Made It: Grand Illusions 1939 – 1942, a 1975 documentary featuring Henri-Georges Clouzot New essay by film scholar Alan Williams, author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking New and improved English subtitle translation Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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Number of Discs:: 1
Aspect Ratios:: 1.33:1
Languages:: Original: French
ISBN10:: 0780027868
Weight:: 136 g

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