As mentioned in our October newsletter, the movie night of our Cine Club will take place at 6:00 pm, on Saturday, October 26th, in AFGO office located at 1516 E. Colonial Dr., suite 120, Orlando, Fl 32803. The parking and the entrance are located at the back of the building.
First, we will have a potluck dinner, followed by the screening of a French movie subtitled in English. At the end of the movie, we will offer the possibility to have a short discussion on the projected movie.
This month, we will be featuring the movie “Le Corbeau” (The Raven), produced in 1943 by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Main actors: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Helena Manson.
A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (The Raven), plagues a French provincial town, exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community’s calm surface.
Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Le Corbeau” was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the Liberation.
But some – including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre – recognized the powerful subtext of anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable, and worked to rehabilitate his directorial reputation after the war.
“Le Corbeau” brilliantly captures a spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turns an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem.