Clouzot’s first full length film is a mild contrast with the dark, suspense-laden thrillers
for which the director is best known (Les Diaboliques... [More...]
Le Corbeau is regarded today as a masterpiece of French cinema it created a storm
of controversy when it was released. The film was banned after the war because of
its perceived subversive and immoral overtones... [More...]
After his three year suspension following the storm that his earlier film, Le Corbeau
, unleashed, Clouzot returned to French cinema with a magnificently crafted detective
thriller... [More...]
Probably one of the most harrowing two and half hours of cinema, Le salaire de la peur
is not a film for the squeamish – or the sentimental. It is director Henri-Georges
Clouzot’s undisputed masterpiece and... [More...]
Les Diaboliques is considered by many to be the most suspenseful thriller ever
made, easily in the same league as Hitchcock’s better films. Although the film begins
quite slowly and innocently... [More...]
In 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot had the idea for making an unusual documentary about the
legendary artist Picasso. It is intriguing to speculate how the film might have
developed... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot followed his masterful and hugely successful suspense thriller
Les Diaboliques (1955) with this perplexing
parody thriller, a far less satisfactory work that proved to be something of a commercial
... [More...]
