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Lucienne (Stéphane Audran) lives a loveless but conveniently comfortable marriage to a provincial town s ambitious mayor Paul Delamare (Claude Piéplu), who seems more interested in a lucrative but corrupt land deal than he does in anything other than the most basic trappings of family life. Unsurprisingly, Lucienne spices things up with a passionate affair with Pierre Maury (Michel Piccoli), who needs a similar distraction from his bed-ridden wife. But when Delamare appoints Maury as his deputy, the latter s relationship with Lucienne, already under constant threat of exposure thanks to the need to meet in semi-public places, becomes far more potentially damaging - especially when people start dying in mysterious and politically awkward circumstances. As ever with Claude Chabrol, it s the complex psychological interplay between the three main characters (and Lucienne s teenage daughter, a silent witness to more than she was supposed to see) that makes his film so riveting.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will 'benefit the town', and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair... SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin International Film Festival, ...Wedding in Blood ( Les Noces rouges ) ( L' Amico di famiglia )
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Les Noches Rouges/Wedding in Blood is one of Claude Chabrol's worst films from his richest period, an utterly mundane crime passionel devoid of insight or interest despite being set in the small town bourgeois milieu that had served him so well in the past and would again in the future. Chabrol has always had a tendency towards caricature, and the laughable passionate embraces between Michel Piccoli and Stephane Audran (neither at their best) or the half-dimensional corrupt mayor are indicative of the clumsiness of the whole sorry enterprise, as is the lumbering flashback setting up the murders. Things briefly threaten to get interesting after the second murder, but by then the film is nearly over and the promise remains unfulfilled.
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Chabrol at his least interesting
20 Jun 2007
Les Noches Rouges/Wedding in Blood is one of Claude Chabrol's worst films from his richest period, an utterly mundane crime passionel devoid of insight or interest despite being set in the small town bourgeois milieu that had served him so well in the past and would again in the future. Chabrol has always had a tendency towards caricature, and the laughable passionate embraces between Michel Piccoli and Stephane Audran (neither at their best) or the half-dimensional corrupt mayor are indicative of the clumsiness of the whole sorry enterprise, as is the lumbering flashback setting up the murders. Things briefly threaten to get interesting after the second murder, but by then the film is nearly over and the promise remains unfulfilled.
Arrow's UK PAL DVD has an acceptable but far from outstanding transfer with optional English subtitles.
Arrow's UK PAL DVD has an acceptable but far from outstanding transfer with optional English subtitles.
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