La Femme infidèle

Posted 17 March 2007 in Screening log

Rating

1969 - France

Director
Claude Chabrol

Starring
Stephane Audran, Michel Bouquet

Perhaps the most perfectly constructed, simple, elegant Chabrol film I have seen yet. The suspense is created with a light touch, no gimmicks. I love how (spoilerish) the course of events leads husband and wife to a silent pact of complicity to preserve their life as they have constructed it, and by the end of the film they understand and accept each other’s actions without question. Absolutely masterful.

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