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Henri-Georges Clouzot's engrossing noir explores the troubles of post-war France and the line dividing social struggle and criminality.
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Clouzot is able to reveal a complex and interactive working-class world in which cops and criminals are sometimes difficult to tell apart. Apr 20, 2009 | Full Review…
Clouzot is able to reveal a complex and interactive working-class world in which cops and criminals are sometimes difficult to tell apart.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Direction by Henri-Georges Clouzot takes full advantage of every possible opportunity to bring out character and manages to keep the tempo at a fast clip all the time. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Direction by Henri-Georges Clouzot takes full advantage of every possible opportunity to bring out character and manages to keep the tempo at a fast clip all the time.
Variety Staff
Jouvet's Maigret-esque cop gets all the best lines, and gives the film its human, tragic focus. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Jouvet's Maigret-esque cop gets all the best lines, and gives the film its human, tragic focus.
Terrifically entertaining. Apr 18, 2003 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Terrifically entertaining.
Ty Burr
An elegant show-biz noir that weaves an intricate web of deception and intrigue. Apr 17, 2003 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
An elegant show-biz noir that weaves an intricate web of deception and intrigue.
Chris Vognar
For those with a taste for classic movies, it's like finding a buried treasure. Feb 28, 2003 | Rating: 4/4
For those with a taste for classic movies, it's like finding a buried treasure.
Moira MacDonald
The exquisite noir lighting and location work suggest a kind of realism, which Clouzot constantly subverts with near-deranged expressionist elements. To watch Blier staggering down an alley in this film is to recognize the limits of color film. Jun 28, 2018 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
The exquisite noir lighting and location work suggest a kind of realism, which Clouzot constantly subverts with near-deranged expressionist elements. To watch Blier staggering down an alley in this film is to recognize the limits of color film.
Ray Pride
Watching Jouvet unravel the other characters as he begins to unravel the mystery is a brilliant lesson in minimalism. Apr 18, 2018 | Full Review…
Watching Jouvet unravel the other characters as he begins to unravel the mystery is a brilliant lesson in minimalism.
Neely Swanson
Very typical of Clouzot's films, he utilizes sound and score to enhance tension and his penchant for mystery uses the whodunit to good effect, always shifting his subjects from innocence to guilt and back. Nov 16, 2011 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Very typical of Clouzot's films, he utilizes sound and score to enhance tension and his penchant for mystery uses the whodunit to good effect, always shifting his subjects from innocence to guilt and back.
Robin Clifford
The ignoble suspicions of Le Corbeau still churn under the razzmatazz surface Sep 25, 2009 | Full Review…
The ignoble suspicions of Le Corbeau still churn under the razzmatazz surface
Fernando F. Croce
A superior noirish thriller which gets right under the skin of the seedy world it inhabits. Apr 27, 2009 | Full Review…
A superior noirish thriller which gets right under the skin of the seedy world it inhabits.
Film4 Staff
A beautifully-made and beautifully-written film about people stuck in a place that won't let them lead anything but a crummy, second-rate life. Classical French cinema at its very best. Oct 12, 2008 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
A beautifully-made and beautifully-written film about people stuck in a place that won't let them lead anything but a crummy, second-rate life. Classical French cinema at its very best.
Tim Brayton
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