If you loved L'Auberge du Mal, try La Rivière noire
Un pont entre un film que tu as déjà vu et un que peu de gens ont croisé. Voici ce qu'ils partagent, et ce que le second fait que le premier ne fait pas.
Ce qu'ils partagent
Both films are directed by Masaki Kobayashi, and they both carry the bittersweet, dread mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to L'Auberge du Mal, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What La Rivière noire is
You live in a riverside town where kindness is currency and cruelty walks free. Then a visiting student arrives with his idealistic girlfriend and an uninvited guest whose grin hides a switchblade. Masaki Kobayashi’s 1957 Kaneto Shindō script pinches postwar Japan’s slack law like a vise left to rust. The film walks away with nothing resolved.
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