Working on a short piece about L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot, a truly incredible documentary that pieces together the strange story of the great director’s unfinished experimental would-be masterpiece L’Enfer, using a cache of footage from the film’s doomed production and extensive, experimental pre-production phase. Clouzot intended to incorporate the latest in avant-garde image and sound techniques to create the inner life of a tormented husband; the film’s insight into his fractured creative process is astonishing. See this movie.
(That’s Romy Schneider in a test shot, by the way.)
