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Bookmark this pageLe Corbeau (1943)
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
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From Time Out Film Guide
David Thomson calls Clouzot's a 'cinema of total disenchantment'. This exposé of a malicious small town in France must be one of the most depressed films to emerge from the period of the German Occupation: everyone speaks badly of everyone else, rumours of abortion and drug addiction are rife, and a flood of poison-pen letters raises the spiteful hysteria to epidemic level. Clouzot's misanthropy concludes in total defeat; his naggingly over-insistent style occasionally achieves a great blackness.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Larquey, Micheline Francey, Ginette Leclerc, Louis Seigner, Noël Roquevert, Roger Blin, Héléna Manson full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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