Tonight on Netflix: A suspenseful, must-see masterpiece!

In Las Piedras, a lost corner of Central America, a kind of frontier town with a hybrid population, there is a shortage of work. Everyone under the sun drowns their boredom in alcohol. Not far from there, the American oil company SOC is constantly hiring.

One day, he asked four volunteers to drive two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin to put out a fire at a well 500 kilometers away. For $2000, Mario, Joe, Luigi and Bimba risk their lives on this journey…

Remake for 2024

April 2023. Stupidity and trembling. Netflix has announced with much fanfare the remake of a French cinema monument: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 film The Revenge of Fear. Needless to say, we haven’t seen this announcement, especially since this new version is being trusted. The hands of Julien Leclerc, to whom we owe especially the thriller L’Assaut, or recently for Netflix the film Sentinelle with Olga Kurylenko.

If William Friedkin’s The Witcher is considered by many to be superior to the original film, Julien Leclerc’s film, due out this year, will logically have a lot of work to do to – if possible – rise to the level. of his glorious elders. Starting with its original French model.

Four men on the edge

A devastating odyssey of four characters on the edge of the abyss, powerfully staged by Henri-Georges Clouzot at the height of his art, to the tension, The wages of fear It hasn’t aged a bit since it came out.

A fascinating thriller shot not in Central America but in Provence, not far from Nîmes, the film was a triumph in French cinemas with 7 million admissions, in addition to winning the Grand Prix (ancestor of the Palme d’Or) at Cannes. Film Festival in 1953, as well as the Golden Bear at the Berlinale for the film director.

The film’s background is also very much in line with current political events: American oil companies’ control of local resources by exploiting local workers who are paid a pittance.

Violently anti-capitalist

A violent anti-capitalist discourse against an America engulfing small Central American nations would certainly not be to Uncle Sam’s country taste, as Time reminded us in its review of the film, which wrote that it was “One of the most evil movies ever made”. FYI, it will be Screening ban in Guatemala…

Suffice it to say, it’s an urgent viewing in anticipation of the new version promised for this year.