Past Film/Video | Classics

Le corbeau

(The Raven, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943)

4K RESTORATION

A man staring at a crow.

“As sulfurous as [Clouzot’s] best-known films, The Wages of Fear(1953) and Diabolique (1955), or indeed anything this misanthropic filmmaker ever did….takes clinical pleasure in detailing a small town’s moral disintegration.”—J Hoberman, New York Review of Books

A provincial village succumbs to suspicion and general hysteria when an anonymous poison pen writer starts spilling the secrets of its citizens. Shot during the Nazi occupation of France by a German production company and now viewed as a searing critique of French collaborators during the war, the suspenseful tale got director Henri-Georges Clouzot banned from the French film industry for two years following the liberation. (91 mins., 4K DCP)

A man staring at a crow.

Le Corbeau, image courtesy of Rialto Pictures.

A woman and a man standing side by side

Le Corbeau, image courtesy of Rialto Pictures.

Black and white image of a piece of scratch paper with notes

Le Corbeau, image courtesy of Rialto Pictures.

A woman in bed painting her toenails with a cigarette in her mouth

Le Corbeau, image courtesy of Rialto Pictures.

SEASON SUPPORT FOR FILM/VIDEO

Rohauer Collection Foundation

 

SUPPORT FOR THE FILM/VIDEO STUDIO PROGRAM

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Endowment for the Arts

 

GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE WEXNER CENTER

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Ohio Arts Council

The Columbus Foundation

Nationwide Foundation

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Le corbeau