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Le Corbeau - Criterion Collection

Le Corbeau
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Genres: Drama, Thriller, War
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Plot Sypnosis:

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. 

Release Details

Movie Release Year: 1943
Tech Specs & Release Details

Specs: New 4K restoration
Video Resolution/Codec: 1080p/MPEG-4 AVC
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.37:1
Audio Formats: French Mono
Subtitles/Captions: English
Special Features: PLUS: An essay by film scholar Alan Williams