| | Corbeau DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Foreign Films Movies, Thriller Videos, Suspense, French, Criterion Collection, France, Blackmail | | Starring | Pierre Larquey, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Noel Roquevert | | Director | Henri-Georges Clouzot | | Screenwriter | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters known only as Le Corbeau (The Raven) plagues a French provincial town, and unwittingly exposes the collective suspicion and rancor that was seething beneath the community's calm surface. Made during the Nazi Occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, the Catholic Church, and was banned after the liberation. Captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turns an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. 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. Corbeau Reviews: "[A] dark and malevolent melodrama....Clouzot lays bare the bigotry, suspicion, politicking and sycophancy which characterised Vichy France."
-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound
This is the only Pierre Larquey video. Corbeau | List Price | $29.99 (You save $6.00) | | Studio | Criterion Collection | | Orig Year | 1943 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  22073  | | CD Universe Part number | 6651912 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 10, 2009 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Raven | | Running Time | 91 Minutes | | Additional Info | Full Screen ;Black & White | | Movie Details | B&W; Full Screen; Black & White |
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Corbeau DVD Region 1
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Additional Release Material:
Interviews: Bertrand Tavernier - Director of COUP DE TORCHON
Documentary: Excerpts From "The Story of French Cinema By Those Who Made It: Grand Illusions 1939-1942" (1975)
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New Essay by Film Scholar Alan Williams
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters known only as Le Corbeau (The Raven) plagues a French provincial town, and unwittingly exposes the collective suspicion and rancor that was seething beneath the community's calm surface. Made during the Nazi Occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, the Catholic Church, and was banned after the liberation. "Le Corbeau" brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turns an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem.
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