Getting set to watch a number of French films over the next few months,I decided to ask fellow IMDbers about what their top movies from France are. Talking to a fellow IMDber,I found out about a title from auteur film maker Henri-Georges Clouzot which gets regularly overlooked,which led to me getting ready to go spying with Clouzot.
In common, I would guess, with anyone who had seen and admired the earlier work of Clouzot beginning with Le Corbeau and culminating in Les Diaboliques, I approached this with taste buds primed for major salivation only to be disappointed. This has to be a one-off, a thriller sans thrills.
This is HG Clouzot's most ambitious work ,one of the most demanding and complex movie of a soon-to-be -nouvelle-vague France.Let's put it straight:although modern to a fault,"les espions" has nothing to do with the nouvelle vague:no ""free" camera here",a bunch of "old actors", a very elaborate screenplay.
Korean cinema is lucky to have their own serious political clash between north & south. Because of that, they got a lot of idea on how to manipulate it into their cinematic ways.
This absurdist satire of a world gone mad is a creepy delight. SPOILER ALERT!
Les Espions or "Spies" as it was released here in the US in '58 is both a crazy film and a crazily efficient film. Its one of these movies that somehow manages to work as both a genre spy film AND a parody of the genre spy film at the same time.
The head doctor of a failing sanatorium accepts a million francs from a mysterious government agent to harbour a new fake patient. This new inmate is said to be an inventor of a new devastating nuclear device, as a consequence, a swarm of international spies are drawn to the hospital.
