French Film Noir
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Now confirmed four of the very finest of the movies that define Film Noir: Clouzot's Le Salaire de la Peur, Les Diaboliques (noir/horror), Quai des Orfevres, and Rififi (Dassin).
Films in the French Film Noir:
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Film: Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes
17 Nov 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Opening our season of French Film Noir. Rififi is a true classic lauded by critics and directors alike and credited as archetypal of the 'heist gone wrong' movie. Mixing the pace and economy of great American Noirs with European framing and choreography of action. A truly seminal crime film.
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Film: Quai Des Orfevres
24 Nov 2013, 7:30 p.m.
A traditional procedural noir provides our first example of the work of Clouzot a director already emerging as a leader in the genre. A classic tale of jealousy and murder set in the Paris underworld and shot through with his characteristic understanding of the dark side of human nature.
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Film: Les Diaboliques
1 Dec 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Film Noir in a private school shows Clouzot at the peak of his talents winding up the suspense and challenging convention in a dark vision of human nature. The wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire in his murder but afterwards his body disappears and strange events plague them.
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Film: Le Salaire De La Peur/The Wages Of Fear
8 Dec 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, The Wages of Fear established Director Henri George Clouzot as a master of suspense equal to or exceeding Hitchcock. He builds a picture of men trapped in a corrupt Company town before immersing us in their terrifying and truly gripping journey to escape.