Le Corbeau

Trailer

Play Dates

April 7, 10, & 15 Vancouver, BC VIFF

Featured Quote

“PROPULSIVE AND UNSETTLING!
Clouzot’s thundering technique and the impassioned performances of his cast lift Le Corbeau’s gossip
to something scarifying.”
— Alan Scherstuhl, The Village Voice

About

France, 1943
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
Screenwriter: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Louis Chavance
Cinematography: Nicolas Hayer
Music: Tony Aubin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Language: French with English subtitles
Running Time: 92 minutes

Synopsis:
Salacious accusations swirl as a series of poison pen letters circulates through a small French town – all signed with the nom-de-plume “The Raven.” The primary target of the letters, Dr. Rémy Germain (Pierre Fresnay), struggles to deduce the identity of the anonymous rumormonger before the town destroys itself.

Reviews and Quotes 2

"UNFORGETTABLE...Le Corbeau is a hellbrew that has lost not a fraction of its flavor, and it feels all to pertinent
to the age of trolls."
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

"A SUPERB NOIR THRILLER!"
— Philip French, The Guardian

"As brilliantly nasty as [Clouzot's later] Wages of Fear and Diabolique or indeed anything this misanthropic filmmaker ever did."
— J. Hoberman, The Village Voice