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Le Corbeau (1943); Henri-Georges Clouzot
Topic Started: Jan 19 2008, 09:26 AM (179 Views)
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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I watched this French film last night. Rather good mystery. In a small French town, letters start to arrive to different members of the town. The letters are damning the recipients with false accusations (or are they?). All the letters are signed "The Raven", or Le Corbeau if you please. The main character, a doctor, is accused of abortion and adultery with a colleague's wife. The letters arrive quickly to the township via mail, dropping from the upper section of the town's church and even falling from the back of a hearse as it procedes thru town carrying a victim of Le Corbeau's accusing hand. The hearse scene is good, it has alot of the townspeople passing by the letter as they trail the hearse and they all just pass on both sides of the letter, avoiding it like the plague.

There's a series in the film when a woman is accused of being Le Corbeau. As she runs though the narrow, building lined streets with a mob chasing, I saw something that struck me as odd and I backed the disc up to view the scenes again. As she runs in the shadow of the building to her left, she casts a shadow on a wall that's about 25 feet in front of her. It's just not possible, so there musta been a light somewhere behind the camera casting her impossible shadow. She is wearing a flowing black outfit because of the funeral and the shadow looks like a, well le corbeau.

This film was madeduring the Nazi occupation of France and it is a remarkable film. If you've seen it, ya know what I'm sayin'....if you haven't, well, you're missing out.
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