Yet again Chabrol delivers us this sumptuous movie filled with suspense and mystery. Stephane Audran is also in this film ( she must have been his favourite actress) as the wife of an impotent and thoroughly egotistical man. Bored, she embarks on an affair with her husband's business colleague, the mayor and dreams of them running away together and starting a new life. It is only when her husband finds out about the situation that things start to change drastically. Audran is suitably glacial in her role, and as always gives a top performance. The format for Chabrol's best movies is usually the same - an affair, then acknowledgement by the cuckold, with maybe a murder thrown in for good measure, but the films are always eerily disturbing and very often move along at a relaxed pace until a big climax 2/3s in.
A great movie that had me gripped from the title credits. Good old Chabrol.
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