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- By writing his drivers as lowlifes on margins, far removed from normal society and filled with desperation, thereby deleting any romantic portrayals, Clouzot orchestrates an exercise in human empathy, in the audience’s ability to find compassion for the fates of inexcusably harsh men.
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Sep 10, 2008 · Clouzot’s film confronts us with more than merely a brief anecdotal setup, but an in-depth examination of his focus—four tramps paid $2,000 a piece by an American oil company to haul two truckloads of nitroglycerin across desolate, volatile terrain, to blow out a smoldering drill site.
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Dec 8, 1991 · One of cinema’s most revered thrillers, La Saliare de la Peur or The Wages of Fear is the acknowledged masterpiece of the brilliant French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-77). It is also the film that made popular music hall singer Yves Montand into a movie star.
Jan 23, 2018 · Aside from Véra Clouzot’s physical prominence, Vanel’s is the real star turn in The Wages of Fear. This ambiguously arrogant hoodlum is a posturing bastard, corruptive and conniving, and he is almost instantly revealed to be a fraud.
Apr 21, 2009 · With a single stroke, Clouzot has set in motion his primary theme—that men are constantly searching the horizon to the detriment of all else in their immediate world. Men are “goal oriented,” addicted to the “quest,” itching for the “heroic” opportunity. Or so we tell ourselves. Clouzot says no. Men are wanderers.
The Wages of Fear (French: Le Salaire de la peur [a]) is a 1953 thriller film directed and co-written by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Véra Clouzot.
Oct 18, 2017 · Year: 1953. Country: France/Italy. BBFC Certification: 12. Duration: 148 mins. Amongst film buffs, the name Henri-Georges Clouzot is revered enough to be spoken in hushed tones and yet his reputation seems to rest primarily on two masterworks from the 50s, Les Diaboliques and The Wages of Fear.
One of the few contemporaries of Hitchcock who gave the Master of Suspense a run for his money, Henri-Georges Clouzot dealt in misanthropic, black-humored tales of greed, jealousy, murder, immorality, and revenge.
