The Wages of Fear — 4K 03/22/25

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s suspense ordeal is back, with additional minutes of footage and remastered in flawless 4K. Few films express such a poisonous attitude about humanity: for four desperate men, the only way to escape a South American backwater is to volunteer for a veritable suicide mission, driving truckloads of nitroglycerine up a punishing mountain road. Clouzot’s film so strongly indicts economic exploitation by multi-national companies, that the U.S. release was held up for two years, and even then censored by twenty minutes. Star Yves Montand’s career got a fresh start with a film acknowledged as an incomparable masterpiece of misanthropy. On 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
03/22/25