A man suspects that his wife is having an affair and hires a private investigator. It is the beginning of a nerve-racking thriller. With La femme infidèle, Claude Chabrol created a chilling deconstruction of the middle class.
Claude Chabrol is highly influenced by Alfred Hitchock, a director Chabrol greatly admired en studied when he was still a critic for the influential film magazine Cahier du Cinema. Hitchcocks influence is clearly visible in La femme infidèle, all centred around mundanity and murder. A restrained psychologial thriller, operating in a very grey zone of morality.
With support of Institut français NL and the IF-cinéma programme.
ZomerCinema: AMOUR
First love, obsessive love, forbidden love, unrequited love, true love: love comes in a thousand forms — and thus in a thousand films. With a programme of twelfe French films, we celebrate (and question) love in all its manifestations. Because France is the country of love. Right?
From sultry summer films to works that explore the destructive shadow sides of love. And from classics by established filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut to films by contemporary directors such as Justine Triet and Vanessa Filho: it is l’été de l’amour.
- Director
- Claude Chabrol
- Length
- 95′
- Country
- France
- Subtitles
- English
- Supported by
- Institut français NL
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