L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot / Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Inferno,  FR 2009 colour 94 min.

dir: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea Annonier
pro: Serge Bromberg, Lobster Films
sc:  Serge Bromberg
ph: Irina Lubtchansky, Jérome Krumenacker
mus: Bruno Alexlu
ed: Janice Jones
cast: Catherine Allegret, Bérénice Bejo, Jacques Gamblin, Serge Reggiani, Romy Schneider
dis: Against Gravity

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot chose Romy Schneider, age 26, and Serge Reggiani, 42, to be the stars of “L’enfer”. It was an enigmatic and original project with an unlimited budget that was to be a cinematic “event” upon its release. But after three weeks of shooting, things took a turn for the worse. The project was stopped, and the images, which were said to be “incredible”, would remain unseen. These images, forgotten for over half a century, were recently found and are more breathtaking than legend had predicted. They tell us of a unique film about madness and jealousy, filmed in the first-person, the story of an ill-fated film shoot, and of Henri-Georges Clouzot, who had given free reign to his filmmaking genius. Never has Romy been so beautiful and hypnotic. Never will an auteur be as close and as passionately linked to a hero he has created.