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Henri-Georges Clouzot

French Film Directors Series

By (author) Christopher Lloyd
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 21st Jan 2016
Dimensions: w 124mm h 197mm d 16mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN-10: 1784992860
ISBN-13: 9781784992866
Barcode No: 9781784992866
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Now available in paperback, this book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le corbeau, Quai des Orfevres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les diaboliques, Le mystere Picasso). Clouzot's films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions, drew him repeatedly to the thriller as a convenient and compelling model for plots and characters, but his source texts and the usual conventions of the genre receive distinctly unconventional treatment. -- .

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