The Big Heat
The Cinémathèque québécoise has teamed up with Film Noir au Canal to present Fritz Lang's darkest and most tense American film.
En présence de Serge Turgeon : Fondateur et directeur artistique de Film Noir au Canal et Will Straw : Professeur en communications au Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études en communication de l'Université McGill, grand expert de films policiers et membre du conseil d’administration de Film Noir au Canal.
A criminal wants to kill a policeman investigating his activities, but shoots the policeman's wife. The man leaves the force to seek revenge, and receives help from the mistress of one of the gangsters.
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a film noir precursor that he made before he moved to the United States. His other major films include Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), Hangmen Also Die! (1943), The Woman in the Window (1944), Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).
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