Goupi mains rouges Le corbeau

Jacques Becker's Goupi mains rouges and Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le corbeau both offer portraits of the underside of small town living.

Second feature start time: 9 pm. Set in rural France, Goupi mains rouges is an outrageous combination of black comedy and thriller. Focusing on a feuding family's treachery and double-dealing, it offers a rare, unsentimentalized look at French country life. (Jacques Becker, 1943; 104 mins.)

One of the most chilling films of the Occupation, Le corbeau (The Raven) is an engrossing whodunit about the residents of a small town. Their lives are torn apart by poison-pen letters from "The Raven" accusing them of crimes, echoing the real-life eruption of French citizens denouncing each other to the Gestapo. (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943; 92 mins.)

Series organized by Marie Bonnel, French Cultural Services, New York.


support credits

Season support provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.

Contemporary films, international films, and visiting filmmakers presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.