Le Corbeau (1943)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 3
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 2
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A small French village is plagued by a poison-pen writer, whose principal target is Doctor Germain (Pierre Fresnay). The vitriolic letters wreak so much havoc that soon neighbor turns upon neighbor. Eventually, even the doctor himself becomes one of the suspects, as the townspeople are driven to commit paranoia-fueled crimes and suicides. The actual culprit is revealed to be one of the least likely candidates. Though it can now be seen to be a subliminal indictment of the paranoia fomented by
Jan 1, 1943 Wide
Feb 17, 2004
Continental
Cast
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Pierre Fresnay
Dr. Remy Germain -
Pierre Larquey
Dr. Michel Avorzet -
Micheline Francey
Laura Avorzet -
Ginette Leclerc
Denise Saillens -
Jean Brochard
M. Bonnevi -
Noël Roquevert
School Director Saillen... -
Louis Seigner
Bertrand -
Palau
The Postmaster -
Héléna Manson
Marie Corbin -
Sylvie
Mother of cancerous Fra... -
Antoine Balpêtré
Dr. Delorme -
Pierre Bertin
The Sub-Prefect -
Roger Blin
Francois the cancer pat... -
Marcel Delaitre
Preacher -
Bernard Lancret
Magistrate -
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (3) | DVD (11)
Suffocatingly corrosive and misanthropic.
Polished, impersonal work, it puts forward little more than a spirit of free-floating misanthropy.
This exposé of a malicious small town in France must be one of the most depressed films to emerge from the period of the German Occupation.
Top CriticClouzot, often called the French Hitchcock, is not just a master of suspense but is also most adroit at implicating his audience.
Le Corbeau stands tall above and beyond the criticisms of the day as a biting comment on the degenerative effects of using vicious and paranoid practices to bind together in fear any society of people.
Very shrewdly designed to work as a mystery thriller -- complete with red herrings -- and it undeniably holds the viewer's interest throughout with the mystery.
A searching light on humanity's warts and pockmarks
A superb noir thriller.
It's the kind of seriously offensive in-your-face psychological thriller that would make a hell of a double-feature with Dreyer's Day of Wrath.
Good performances, a fitting atmosphere, and some truly unique characterizations give a lift to an otherwise worn idea.
A masterful blend of dark misanthropy and small-town hysteria
The movie is a veritable masterwork of communal paranoia, self-loathing and general discontent...
It's so deftly made, superbly acted and relentlessly bitter that it manages to condemn repression, hypocrisy and those eager to be judgmental on a universal level.
A sophisticated and morally complex look at the things that damaged people living in a dangerous time will do
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Foreign Titles
- The Raven (Le Corbeau) (DE)
- The Raven (Le Corbeau) (UK)
