The wages of fear
Seems like i've been on a Criterion high lately, this movie did surely not disappoint! What a nail biting ride.
I'm afraid I must admit that this is my first foreign 50s movie, I was expecting something with a lot of overacting typical to those movies from that era,but Clouzot went the opposite direction and introduced me to this bleak realistic world filled with atypical characters, the slick guy who appears nice is a bit of a brute, the old man who looks like a mob boss is actually a mouse of a man, etcetera. No music, just you and 100 pounds of nitroglycerine.
The first half does a terrific job of introducing 4 characters you will not at first sympathize with (except luigi), but in the second half when all the action begins you'll love each character doing his thing and you'll be rooting for all of them.
I gave this movie 4.5 on Letterboxd. If you're into a tense slow burner of a movie then I highly recommend it
