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Sorcerer is a puzzling picture. It is adapted from the same Georges Arnaud thriller on which Henri-Georges Clouzot based his well-regarded 1953 film, The Wages of Fear (that's the one about trucking nitroglycerin over the mountains). The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie...
CURRIER HOUSE DINING ROOM, The Wages of Fear, directed by Clouzot, April...
...Wages of Fear. French, yet a surprising commercial success in the U.S. (both with sub-titles and in a dubbed version). Henri-Georges Clouzot wrote and directed this tragedy of Latin truckers working in a South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel...
Another impressive scene is the one in which a truck has to be turned around on a wooden platform hanging over the edge of a cliff. The cutting and soundtrack of this scene prove Clouzot to be a master at editing and timing suspense scenes. (Yvcs Montand is the hero of this scene...
...Clouzot's world is as exciting as it is black. All men are equal in the long run, because all their efforts are reduced to nought by the impersonal fate which guides their lives. The Wages of Fear is probably the best film noir in twenty years, so fans of Hitchcok, Sartre, Poe, Graham Greene, and Ambrose Bierce should not miss...