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There are two things often said about this film that I would like to strongly agree with: first, it begins rather slowly, and second, it really is one of, if not THE, most suspenseful films ever made.
The first third of the movie moves inexplicably slowly. I can understand many of the reasons why: the attempt to account for the characters, to indicate their interactions with one another, to depict the smooth desperation of their lives to earn it plausible that four men would undertake such an astonishingly risky job as hauling nitroglycerin over treacherous jungle and mountain dirt roads. Even granting all that, however, the originate is by any standard really, really stupid. And I suspect that of the people you encounter who proclaim the film a bore either gave up before getting to the grand parts or never recovered from the dumb commence.
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The most suspenseful film ever made? Some people negate that the film has been so overhyped along these lines that it would be impossible for any film to advance up to one’s expectations. There are two edges to this sword. I am far more impressed that despite being hyped as the most suspenseful film ever made, I was nonetheless utterly on the edge of my seat for most of the final 100 minutes. And if some of the scenes seem somewhat familiar, it is undoubtedly because of the bag of films that have plundered this film for their maintain tension-filled scenes.
I have often plan that Yves Montand was, at his best, one of the more compelling performers of the last half of the twentieth century. He wasn’t consistently successful internationally. Sometimes one or two decades would near between some of his greatest triumphs. To illustrate, I contemplate Montand’s two greatest film appearances were THE WAGES OF Anxiety (1953) and JEAN DE FLORETTE/MANON OF THE SPRING (1986), only thirty-three years apart.
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Many viewers are not comfortable with the very ending of the movie and I I have to agree somewhat. Nihilism was very fashionable in the early 1950s in European cinema. The ending, which seems completely unnecessary and not organically connected with the rest of the film, reflects less any inner necessity for a downer ending than the general mood in “serious” films at the time. So, in a sense, one could argue that this movie manages to be one of the vast classics of cinema despite a plain beginning and an arbitrarily negativistic ending. Where the film shines is in the utterly riveting saunter through the jungle and mountains.
Iconic, vintage masterpiece in bright modern transfer.
Criterion’s restored hi-def transfer of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s controversial, visceral and prescient thriller smooth grabs the viewer by the throat for a breathless, nihilistic dawdle.
This legendary film of suspense and despair was deemed “detestable” by Time magazine during its 1955 US release. Based on the harrowing 1950 book by George Arnaud, it’s a cautionary fable of the honest blood-toll of oil and greed.
Filmed in 1951 and first shown in France in 1952, “The Wages of dismay” (Le Salaire de la peur) is about four European men at the kill of their ropes. In a hell-hole of a South American village, these desperate men acquire a job from an American oil company to drive two trucks of unstable nitroglycerine along a treacherous mountain route to an oil fire.
Clouzot, who made less than a dozen films including the acclaimed “Les Diaboliques” and “Quai des orfevres” never flinches from his vision. Although the first half may seem a bit unfocused and meandering it is not because we bag to know our characters, the squalid S.A. setting and the uncaring, greed-driven, business-as-usual of the American oil company. The movie literally jump starts when the four hapless men hit the road in their two trucks overloaded with nitro. We understand these men and we pace with them and their emotions. Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Antonio Centa are terrific as the frantic, fraught drivers.
There’s a lot of post WW II existential angst in this account and that’s not surprising. After all, it is French and the ideas of Camus and Sartre permeate this film as they did the decade in which it was produced.
My only memory of this film was a washed out video tape copy with impossible to read subtitles and later a veteran 16mm print in film school.
I’ve watched this Blu-ray version several times now and it is comely. It looks like a print that fair came from the lab. The sad and white is crisp, with a amazing range of grays — velvety shadows to burnished silver. And the subtitles are always easy to read and perfectly synched to the spoken French. But more principal, the rhythm and meaning of the spare dialogue remains.
This gritty film, devoid of sentimentality, follows men who live in dread. They know death is coming and yet continue with the task at hand until the raze. Although my personal philosophy is not that of the drivers, it reminded me to delight in the precious moments of life and to live it fully, bravely and in the moment.
This is one in the rather shrimp handful of the greatest films in world cinema. It has never looked better. And it asks questions that are relevant today: How desperate are we in our need for oil? And what is the final notice? Highest recommendation.
Superior extras include:
Interviews with assistant director Michel Romanoff, Clouzot biographer Marc Godlin and Yves Montand from 1988) . A grand documentary on Clouzot’s career “The Enlightened Tyrant.” “CENSORED,” a revealing ogle at the cuts made for the initial 1955 U.S. release. And “No Exit,” an insightful booklet/essay by novelist Dennis Lehane.
US Silver Eagles
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