Friday | December 16, 2011 9:30 pm

Inferno
(L'Enfer)

Screening on Film

Directed by Serge Bromberg and Roxandra Medrea.
France, 2009, 35mm, color and b&w, 102 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: Flicker Alley

Archival detective and world-renowned film preservationist Serge Bromberg gained rare access to footage from Clouzot's aborted and outrageously ambitious L'Enfer, a long cherished tale of dangerous infatuation starring Romy Schneider and proposed to feature what would have been extended sequences of spectacular visual effects. The story of the doomed project, with Clouzot under siege from illness and ill fortune from every direction, is gripping and ultimately tragic.