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Sorcerer
Why this pick
Friedkin’s punishing reimagining preserves the doomed expatriates, corporate exploitation and nerve-shredding dangerous haul, with a harsher, more hallucinatory visual intensity.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1953 2h 32m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
French people Mario and Jo, Germans Bimba and Italians Luigi are stuck in the isolated town of Las Piedras. Surrounded by desert, the town is linked to the outside world only by a small airport, but the airfare is beyond the means of the men. There is little opportunity for employment aside from the American corporation that dominates the town, Southern Oil Company (SOC), which operates the nearby oil fields and owns a walled compound within the town. SOC is suspected of unethical practices such as exploiting local workers and taking the law into its own hands, but the townspeople's dependence upon it is such that they suffer in silence.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Yves Montand
Mario Livi
Charles Vanel
M. Jo
Folco Lulli
Luigi
Peter van Eyck
Bimba
Jo Dest
Smerloff