The documentary L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot is film historian Serge Bromberg's look at the troubled production of an unfinished film Clouzot worked on in 1964. Starring the radiantly beautiful Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani, L'Enfer was to be an experimental drama showing the increasingly insane jealousy of Reggiani's husband toward his wife by filming Schneider in all sorts of distorted ways, switching from black-and-white to color and using various color filters, purple lipstick (!), superimpositions, and other optical effects to present a subjective view of madness. Bromberg gained access to a huge amount of footage from the film, but the soundtrack is lost, which led him to use actors to recreate crucial dialogue scenes. Along with interviews of key crew members from the aborted film, Bromberg has skillfully assembled a fascinating behind-the-scenes story. He's also a very funny and charming person, as evidenced in his lively introduction and Q&A at Alice Tully Hall.
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