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Essential Cinema: HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO

Presented by Austin Film Society at Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar

July 12, 2011

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Henri-Georges Clouzot was one of the major French auteurs of the pre-New Wave generation. With DIABOLIQUES and THE WAGES OF FEAR, he took psychological drama into areas likewise mined by Hitchcock. INFERNO was to be his most experimental film – a plunge into the psychology of a man driven mad by obsessive jealousy. But with a tight deadline caused by a lake about to be drained, Clouzot was driven to having a heart attack and having to abandon the project. Fifty years later film preservationist Serge Bromberg fortuitously discovered footage of nearly 13 hours of tests and principal scenes. With recreations, interviews, and archival film Bromberg has created a fascinating document of an unfinished masterpiece.

 

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    Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar

    1120 South Lamar
    Austin, TX 78704

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    July 12, 2011

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     7pm

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    • Event Name: Essential Cinema: HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO
      "What the film might have been."
      Review posted by: lynnmariejohnson Jul 21, 2011
      

      Trying to convey a sense of what the film might have been like through existing footage of contemporary actors performing key moments from the film, co-directors Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea... Expand

      Trying to convey a sense of what the film might have been like through existing footage of contemporary actors performing key moments from the film, co-directors Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea Annonier did not have an easy task but executed it with some continuity. I felt the live performances weren't necessary, while admirably acted. It didn't entirely work for me. The story—and especially Clouzot’s existing footage—is fascinating & intriguing enough to transcend the treatment. Collapse

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      "What the film might have been."
      Review posted by: lynnmariejohnson Jul 21, 2011
      

      Trying to convey a sense of what the film might have been like through existing footage of contemporary actors performing key moments from the film, co-directors Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea... Expand

      Trying to convey a sense of what the film might have been like through existing footage of contemporary actors performing key moments from the film, co-directors Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea Annonier did not have an easy task but executed it with some continuity. I felt the live performances weren't necessary, while admirably acted. It didn't entirely work for me. The story—and especially Clouzot’s existing footage—is fascinating & intriguing enough to transcend the treatment. Collapse

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