The Wages of Fear (1953) Hell is a company town for Clouzot at his most misanthropic
Maybe the best example of sustained tension in movie history, as four desperate men try to drive two truckfulls of unstable nitroglycerin over miles of bad roads in search of a payday to get them anywhere but there
Maybe the best example of sustained tension in movie history, as four desperate men try to drive two truckfulls of unstable nitroglycerin over miles of bad roads in search of a payday to get them anywhere but there
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Looking forward to hearing what you think of it
First there's a whole other film about being trapped in a rotten town miles from anywhere with no prospects & no way to leave
So then, when the driving starts, we know why the four men can't turn back.They have nothing to go back to, they can make their destination or they can die, those are the options
First, for a director who made relatively few movies in a relatively long career, Clouzot never stopped evolving with the times, so that this looks & feels as different from his movies in the 40s as it does from his last movie in 1968.
In another picture Yves Montand's Mario would be down on his luck but have a sort of rough edged nobility. Maybe he'd be played by William Holden or Burt Lancaster.