Brigitte Bardot’s sultry persona pulls double duty as both an individual character and a capital-W woman.
Throughout, Henri-Georges Clouzot lavishes his attention on the always frangible equilibrium of the group dynamic.
A little light on the extras, but this Criterion edition of a not-quite-famous-enough classic still merits attention.
Today, the film registers as the callous post-WWII flipside to Casablanca.
A white-knuckled introduction to the concept of action-movie existentialism, The Wages of Fear makes for a pummeling black-and-white Blu-ray.