L'Enfer d'Henri-georges Clouzot

Tra le tante opere incompiute della storia del cinema, quella di Clouzot merita una menzione particolare ed è meritoriamente ricostruita da questo film-documento che sfrutta l'abile montaggio delle rushes del film alternate alle interviste e testimonianze di chi orbitava a vario titolo attorno alla lavorazione del film. La menzione è un atto doveroso ma anche istintivo non tanto e [...] Vai alla recensione »

Halfway through dinner, in “The Kids Are All Right,” Nic finds out that she has been betrayed. Without warning, other people’s talk dies away, to be replaced by a strange churning sound, like an underwater helicopter. The sensory world is warped by the force of her feelings. Take that deformation, multiply it a hundredfold, and you approach the eruptive mania that consumes the hero of “Inferno,” Henri-Georg [...] Vai alla recensione »

Failed films make dynamic documentary subjects. "The Epic That Never Was" brilliantly detailed why the Charles Laughton "I, Claudius" never materialized, and "Lost in La Mancha" did the same for Terry Gilliam's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote." Now you can add another film to that exceptional list: " Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno." Clouzot was one of midcentury France's great directors, with successes [...] Vai alla recensione »