Word: corbeau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corrodes every human being that fate has placed there. Any human pretensions or illusions they may have borne are gnawed at and peeled away until they are reduced to the level of pure animalism which is their reality. Clouzot had explored this Bunclesque notion of human degradation in Le Corbeau, a film be made during the war, in which a series of anonymous letters written to the residents of a small provincial town lead them to suspect and maliciously attack one another. The Nazis used the film to demoralize the French and many French critics later attacked the film...
...film is carried along by Welles' directing and Roger Corbeau's sets. The Trial manages to capture the bleak coloressness of Kafka's world: there is not a single tree in the movie; all the windows are frosted or look out on nothing; one gets the impression that even if the film had been shot in color, everything would still be gray and white. The camera seems to go beyond seeing: it touches, it breathes the dark air. Welles creates drama and visual beauty with the camera by moving it expertly. The sets are superb, from the defense lawyers cluttered...
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