Le Corbeau (1943)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:19
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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... [More]
Starring: Pierre Larquey, Noel Roquevert, Ginette Leclerc, Pierre Fresnay
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Reviews for Le Corbeau
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A superb noir thriller. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
A shrewd glimpse into the heart and mind of Vichy France, disclosing a kind of 20-century Salem. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A searching light on humanity's warts and pockmarks Full Review |
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Suffocatingly corrosive and misanthropic. Full Review |
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Polished, impersonal work, it puts forward little more than a spirit of free-floating misanthropy. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Good performances, a fitting atmosphere, and some truly unique characterizations give a lift to an otherwise worn idea. Full Review |
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A masterful blend of dark misanthropy and small-town hysteria Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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91/100 |
A sophisticated and morally complex look at the things that damaged people living in a dangerous time will do Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
either way you want to look at the film, Clouzot was right Full Review |
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4/5 |
An intense mystery and a dead-on satire of small-town morals
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