FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Herni Georges Clouzot - La Verite (engl. subt.)

It's only men who judge Dominique. Dominique is accused of murdering the young conductor Gilbert. There is no doubt; she does not share bourgeois values or morals. Worse still, Dominique doesn't seem to know her at all. That's why the public prosecutor's office describes certain episodes from Dominique's life, which prove one thing above all: This young woman is rampant. Henri-Georges Clouzot won Brigitte Bardot for a role that only she can play. Bardot embodies the nymph, all nature, all impulse. But also a murderer? To this end, we must remember the classic character of the femme fatale. The femme fatale acts consciously and amorally. She lies and mad intrigue. She lives within a society whose rules she deliberately undermines. The nymph, on the other hand, exists outside. How could she break rules that aren't her own? Dominique destroyed a doll at the age of eight because she was never allowed to reach out to her ambitious sister. Later she moved to Paris and surrendered to the nightlife. Instead of working, she met men. Gilbert (Paul Meurisse), the young conductor, believed he had found his great love in Dominique. Nevertheless Dominique let herself be taken by friends on the motorcycle! Jealousy - one of the great themes of Henri-George Clouzot. La Verite is about jealousy that Clouzot had equated with hell in another work. He, the obsessive genius of French cinema, stages a humiliating negotiation to present this young woman for what she is: the victim of a prudish and merciless society. La Verite is timeless, because it exposes how hatred is created: Through advanced "rules" of decency and morality. If you do not submit to them, it is basically the same as leaving the common good. Man is no longer man.