Ohjaus:
Claude ChabrolKäsikirjoitus:
Claude ChabrolKuvaus:
Jean RabierNäyttelijät:
Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, François Périer, Jean Carmet, Henri Attal, Clelia Matania, Roger Lumont, Dominique Zardi, Marina Ninchi (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
After the commendation of The Unfaithful Wife by film critics and the favorable reactions of the audience, Chabrol decided to return to the proven cast, genre, and subject. Michel Bouquet may have been born as a murderer, and he was perfectly suited for roles of unsympathetic men; but here, the script prescribed him a psychologically demanding role of a man who cannot cope with a guilty conscience. One uncontrolled outburst of emotions will forever change his life and condemn him to the role of a mental wreck tormented by doubts. Traditionally cold and psychologically convincing, Chabrol enriched the film with a grotesque dimension and ingeniously conceived social criticism, which we know, for example, from Buñuel's films. The feeling of guilt leads Masson to confession, which, however, as soon becomes apparent, those around him do not care about at all. In the eyes of his loved ones, a social scandal is apparently less acceptable than murder. It is not important what things objectively are, but how they appear on the surface. Where another director would have made a crime drama, Chabrol presents a psychological study of traditional middle-class values, where the moral dilemma of the (anti)hero clashes with the tough pragmatism and the feignedness taken to a pathological dimension. Overall impression: 75%.
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