French with English subtitles
Fasten your seatbelts! Gallic master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot, often called the French Hitchcock, had his greatest success with this legendary 1953 thriller, which won best film honours at both Berlin and Cannes and was perhaps the most widely seen French film of the 1950s. The moody, torpid first part sets the scene: a squalid, sweltering Latin American backwater peopled by outcast expats who've come hoping to make a quick buck in the (American-controlled) petroleum industry, and are now desperately seeking a way - any way - out. The nail-biting, seat-of-the-pants second part is hang-on-for-dear-life masterful, as four foreign down-and-outers - a Corsican (Yves Montand), a Frenchman (Charles Vanel), an Italian (Folco Lulli), and a German (Peter van Eyck) - agree to drive two truckloads of volatile nitroglycerine over treacherous jungle roads to an oil well fire raging 350 miles away. The nerve-wracking roller-coaster tension is unrelenting, and justifiably famous; few films since can match The Wages of Fear for put-the-audience-through-it suspense. (Jim Sinclair, Pacific Cinematheque)
- Friday July 20, 2012 at 8:45PM
- Saturday July 21, 2012 at 2:15PM
- Saturday July 21, 2012 at 6:45PM
- Monday July 23, 2012 at 6:45PM
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