Le Corbeau (The Raven) Criterion Collection 09/22 Blu-ray (Rental)

Le Corbeau title banner Le Corbeau box art Henri-Georges Clouzot's controversial fable of paranoia and slander in a Nazi-occupied French town-now on Blu-ray A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a provincial French town, exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, this film by Henri-Georges Clouzot was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the country's liberation.