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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Clouzot’s earlier mystery shares Le Corbeau’s poisoned social atmosphere, dry irony and mounting suspicion, but channels them through a brisk investigation into a murderer hiding behind a false identity.
02
Why this pick
A cool, methodical police inquiry steadily exposes the connections around a seemingly sealed crime, preserving the procedural tension and unsentimental moral chill of Clouzot’s film.
03
Why this pick
Chabrol turns a provincial French community into a quietly menacing web of observation and withheld feeling, with suspicion developing through restrained character detail rather than overt thrills.
04
Why this pick
This corrosive, darkly satirical thriller shares Le Corbeau’s fascination with accusation, authority and public humiliation, while making the investigation itself a trap of psychological power.
05
Why this pick
Its controlled revenge investigation has the same clinical precision and mistrustful atmosphere, gradually deepening a simple search for culpability into an unsettling moral reckoning.
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01 / THE STORY
In a small French town identified as "anywhere", anonymous poison pen letter letters are sent by somebody signing as "''Le Corbeau''" (the Raven). The letters start by accusing doctor Rémy Germain of having an affair with Laura Vorzet, the pretty young wife of the elderly psychiatrist Dr. Vorzet. Germain is also accused of practising illegal Abortion in France. Letters are then sent to virtually all the population of the town, but keep getting back to the initial victim, Dr. Germain. The situation becomes increasingly serious when a patient of the hospital commits suicide with his straight razor after the Raven writes to him that his cancer is terminal.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Bertrand
La mère du cancéreux
le sous-préfet
