A superb noir thriller.
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01/11/08
Le Corbeau (1943)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 18 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Synopsis: This suspense thriller concerns a small French village whose everyday existence is badly shaken by a series of mysterious poison pen letters. The author of the letters, who signs himself "The Raven," has enough defamatory information to provoke tension and suicide.... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Pierre Larquey, Noel Roquevert, Ginette Leclerc, Pierre Fresnay
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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.
06/24/06
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It's a subversive work and masterful suspense thriller that's the equal of anything Hitchcock ever put his name to.
11/20/03
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A shrewd glimpse into the heart and mind of Vichy France, disclosing a kind of 20-century Salem.
11/20/03
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Unfairly dismissed in the 1940s as pro-Nazi propaganda, this electrifying work represents a singularly pessimistic vision of the human condition from one of cinema's most bracingly misanthropic directors.
11/20/03
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Polished, impersonal work, it puts forward little more than a spirit of free-floating misanthropy.
01/11/08
It's the kind of seriously offensive in-your-face psychological thriller that would make a hell of a double-feature with Dreyer's Day of Wrath.
11/28/06
Good performances, a fitting atmosphere, and some truly unique characterizations give a lift to an otherwise worn idea.
08/29/06
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Clouzot, often called the French Hitchcock, is not just a master of suspense but is also most adroit at implicating his audience.
02/15/05
It’s so deftly made, superbly acted and relentlessly bitter that it manages to condemn repression, hypocrisy and those eager to be judgmental on a universal level.
03/16/04
A sophisticated and morally complex look at the things that damaged people living in a dangerous time will do
03/01/04
An engrossing suspense film that was directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1943 during the Nazi Occupation of France.
11/20/03
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