The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger, 1951)
Weird, I Confess wasn't the only Hollywood movie of the decade set and shot in Quebec. This was fairly nice. It did a good job of blurring the lines of right and wrong. I liked the scene on the (I assume) St. Lawrence River. Also the image of the hanging lamp that sways back and forth. i think Godard used that same image in King Lear. The ending is really nicely unsatisfying.
The funeral scene is really well shot. A great sense of motion to it. When the poison pen letter falls out of the casket and lands at the feet of the passing procession it's brilliant the way its foreboding hang over everyone, yet, in a public scene sunch as that no one could pick it up.
I love Quebec and sometimes I miss living close to it.
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