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(aka "The Raven")
directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
France 1943
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor 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. 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 Clouzot’s directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures a spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem. |
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Theatrical Release: September 28th, 1943
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DVD Review: Criterion - Region 0 - NTSC
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Distribution | Criterion Collection Spine # 227 Region 0 - NTSC | |
Runtime | 1:31:18 | |
Video | 1.33:1
Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 6.97 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
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Audio | French (Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono) | |
Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Edition Details: • New digital transfer, with restored image and sound |
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This disc
shows occasional damage and I suspect the print it was taken from may
not have been in the best of shape. It doesn't have the, now usual, high
level of Criterion sharpness and tight contrast. It is still good, mind
you, just not as one might expect. I suppose that is the problem when
you raise the bar so high - people expect it from you later. The image
is restored, shows good balance, the subs are good, but is just a notch
blow Criterion sharpness. The audio is also restored and there are
excellent Extra Features.
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