Henri-Georges Clouzot claimed that his 1960 film, La Verité, was created with the intent of exploring how it is impossible to judge a person, once full knowledge of that person’s story was in place. Viewed in 2019, where it has recently joined the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray at spine #960, constrains the focus even more. This is a masterful exploration of how many systems of suppression exist to ensure that women are never free, made by a filmmaker whose own commitment to that idea may have been, at the least, questionable.
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