Inglourious Basterds, Part II

2. Le Corbeau (1943), aka The Raven, advertised on Shosanna's marquee, is some kind of indictment, maybe, about someone or other, perhaps, in contemporary Vichy France. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot apparently managed to simultaneously piss off the stalinist Resistance, the Catholic Church and his fascist underwriters, which makes him sound like my hero. I can attest that his later thrillers (Wages of Fear, Diabolique — made after the French government consented to restore his legal right to operate a camera in 1947) are beautifully bleak.