Radio Corbeau

...well only Clouzot is Clouzot.Although the screenplay is different ,"radio corbeau" is nothing but a remake of "le corbeau" that black sparkling diamond of the Occupation years.

What were once scandalous subjects (in 1942,at a time when the Vichy government was lauding the old moral values) have become ,in 1989,simple trite gossips.Time had taken its toll.Yves Boisset has always been a committed director,who's always fought for a good cause.But updating one of the greatest French directors' masterpieces was too much for him.

Watchable,because of the very good cast ,which includes Claude Brasseur,Pierre Arditi and Edith Scob.And the "corbeau" (writer of poison-pent letters,but here he does not write letters anymore, as the title says ,he uses the airwaves)is not the one you expect.There's something of Roger Ackroyd here.

You find here Yves Boisset's trade mark thru Clouzot's best film, but it is not a remake. Boisset's DNA is everywhere in this film. This could have been inspired from a Jean Pierre Bastid's novel, or even Jean Amila's, the two specialists of the political and social issues in France in the sixties and seventies. Bastid wrote Boisset's L'ATTENTAT and DUPONT LAJOIE, which some lines are close to this one. This movie could have been made by Jean Pierre Mocky, the perfect topic for him, but it would have been in a different manner. Mocky's manner. A very accurate analysis of the human behavior, realistic and nasty, disgusting but unfortunately true, some lines you could also find in some westerns taking place in small towns. Boisset's trademark.

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