Le Corbeau (1943)(Criterion Collection) on Blu-ray
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Actor: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Fusier-Gir
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Genre: Drama
Year: 1943
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 91
Released: 09/20/2022
Rating: NR
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Black/White
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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
-New 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
-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
-Optional English Subtitles
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Genre: Drama
Year: 1943
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 91
Released: 09/20/2022
Rating: NR
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Black/White
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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
-New 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
-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
-Optional English Subtitles
| Product Name | Le Corbeau (1943)(Criterion Collection) on Blu-ray |
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| This item is returnable | No |
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