Celebrating Clouzot
November 20 is master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot’s birthday; he would have been 102. You may know him from his most memorable images—Diabolique’s bathtub climax; The Wages of Fear’s nitroglycerin-packed truck squeaking over that rickety bridge—but his varied oeuvre contains some lesser known gems, including the scandalous Le corbeau, made in France under Nazi occupation, and the evocative murder mystery Quai des orfèvres. Explore the work of this most diabolical of French filmmakers here.
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