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Marc Godin (Criterion Wages of Fear DVD)
 * In the 1930s Clouzot was in Germany where he saw the films of F.W. Murnau.
 * Clouzot said he was deeply influenced by German Expressionism.
 * In 1935, Clouzot got TB and went to Haute-Savoie and then to Switzerland where he was bedridden for nearly five years.
 * While bedridden, he read constantly and learned the mechanics of story telling.
 * In 1944 he was banned from filming. He couldn't touch a camera or be allowed on a film set.


 * Argues the french hitchcock isn't the apt title for him.
 * Clouzot's life provides clues to understand him as a film maker.
 * Clouzot was viewed by many of his collaborators as a pessimist, short-tempered, almost always angry.
 * According to Clouzot's brother he had no sense of humor and didn't understand puns or jokes.
 * Clouzot had an obessions for sex publishing a book of photograph in the 1960s and nearly making a pornographic film in 1974 for Francis Micheline, but the project did not pan  out.
 * Clouzot had tried to created a film version of Story of O
 * Clouzot films show the dark side of humanity.
 * Today, Clouzot is generally known for the films The Wages of Fear and Diabolique.