delivers several heart-pounding scenes which William Friedkin actually made more astounding in Sorcerer
BLASPHEMY!!!
Au Revoir Les Enfants is my favorite Malle and yet another touching & powerful WWII film.
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The Wages of Fear is Clouzot's best and voila! Am I a clairvoyant?! IMO it's so much better than Friedkin's film (which I love, too). It's not just an electrifying thriller but also a film about the human condition. I didn't see that in Friedkin's version. In the end, both made a film about something else, so you ought to watch both.
I also watched two previously unseen films that made the list:
Sundays and Cybele was a dark film. It's basically about two hollow bodies looking for a common soul. Other people cannot understand them because for other people a body and a soul are one entity. She is afraid of another disappointment so she clings so hard, fearing another abandonment, and he is completely unable to feel anything anymore, a zombie-like figure dilapidated by the cruelty of war. They support and understand each other on some inexplicable level, but they are unable to heal each other just like crotches won't heal you when you lose a leg. Apart from the down heartening moments, the film is very subtle in its portrayal of their love, with some gentle poetry thrown in for a good measure. She's his wife, and their home is a water circle created by throwing a rock into the water. Such a circle is very short-lived, but beautiful when it lasts.
Run Lola Run is an okayish film that gets slightly repetitive due to the very nature of the movie. Basically, a speedrun of a video game. Add to that a cheesy late 90s soundtrack and some tongue-in-cheek humor and you get yourselves a decent 80 minutes.