Word: clouzot
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Author Louis Chavance, who developed this cruel design for drama from an actual incident, and Henri-Georges Clouzot, who directed the film, have taken shrewd advantage of rich possibilities. They have put such intelligence into their melodrama that it often gives the illusion of transcending melodrama. Their film has speed, energy and tension that are rare in French movies; their character sketches are deft, searching and resourcefully visualized. Their keyhole portrait of a community is a caricature, but a remarkably effective...
Because he made films for a German-controlled company, Director Clouzot was forbidden to work for two years after the liberation; then he made Quai des Orfevres (Jenny Lamour) which is just as unflattering to the French as The Raven, and just as popular-with Frenchmen. Author Chavance says stoutly of his Raicn: "It is no more anti-French than Chicago gangster pictures are anti-American...
Jenny Lamour (French). Winner of the Grand Award at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. A whodunit about vaudeville people. Excellent performances by Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier and the notably attractive Suzy Delair, who suggests a Mae West who really means it. First-rate directing by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The best movie treatment of show business since E. A. Dupont's monumental Variety...